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George Wells' Orphan Train Experience
… George Wells' Orphan Train Experience In 1983, Mildred Bennett, founder of the WCPM, and Don Connors, … interviewed George Müller Wells of nearby Cowles, Nebraska, about his childhood experience of riding the orphan train to … My father went up into Maine to find work, and he took us four children to his sister, an aunt of ours, for us to …
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Tracy Sanford Tucker
… the National Willa Cather Center's museum collections and archives programs, as well as the largest number of …
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Echoes of the Archbishop
… R. Urgo RECOMMENDED READING & EXCERPTS Annotations From the Archives: Cather in Santa Fe: …
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Serena's Album
… these people’s pasts and the trajectories of their lives, becomes also a document of historical sweep and almost … on the title page, the album’s cover title Mental Portraits becomes The Mental Portrait Album . The epigraph credited to … secretary before his marriage and would go on to be a member of the Nebraska Legislature. 14-15 Mrs. R. N. Merriam …
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Travel Through the Pages of American Literature
… performances throughout the year. Our Special Collections & Archives hold some of the priceless treasures of a literary …
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Finding Aids
… TX-50-1000-035 Charles Cather Business Christmas Card Document TX-50-1000-036 Barnum documents 1856 … Bennett Book Inventory Box 17—Mementos, Photos, Gifts, Notes, including: Map of Grand Manan Drawings … & Morgan 1947 Correspondence TEX-62-035 Note regarding gift Marsha Brockway 2012? Willard Crowell Collection Date …
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Virtual Author Series: Garrett Peck
… has lectured for the Library of Congress, the National Archives, Smithsonian Associates, historical societies, and …
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A Song Reawakened
… looked both well-loved and fragile. On its car ride to the archives in Red Cloud, the archivist Tracy Sanford Tucker …
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Nebraska Collaborative Research Grants
… Nebraska Collaborative Research Grants Call for applications … November 5, 2025 The Cather Project of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Department of English, in partnership … financial support for researchers who wish to travel to Nebraska for one to four weeks to conduct in-depth studies …
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Group and Motorcoach Tours
… books and gifts Explore the extensive Collections & Archives at the National Willa Cather Center Take in a …
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