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Annotations from the Archive: Explore the Collection Online
… Explore the Collection Online February 16, 2021 The Cather family, their friends, and many other donors have been very generous to the National Willa Cather Center over the years, contributing to … to Red Cloud are encouraged to reach out with questions about access. The new collections tools will highlight the …
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Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail
… Fan Mail August 22, 2022 Our archives are home to not only Willa Cather’s letters, but to many of the letters that she … towns must, I think, have a very keen and definite feeling about it, but it is almost hopeless to try to communicate it …
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Annotations from the Archive: Our Photo Collections Continue to Grow
… Tracy Tucker aptly illustrate the range of donors to our Willa Cather Foundation Special Collections & Archives. Since our … been mounted to a cardboard backer, no other clues exist about the photographer, the studio, or the occasion. The …
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Annotations from the Archive: Thornton Oakley
… Thornton Oakley March 27, 2022 Any researcher can tell you about an “accident of the archives.” A misfiled photo or … to our collection separately, though both originated with Willa Cather’s niece, Helen Cather Southwick. Both had come to us …
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Annotations from the Archive: Julie Harris Estate Item Joins the Collection
… the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial to appear at the annual Spring Conference. At the time, she was known by many as Lilimae …
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Annotations from the Archive: Our Organizational History
… of 1957, Mildred Bennett and the founding members of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial felt that their work in Red Cloud … that surrounded Willa Cather and sometimes disagreed about how to preserve her legacy. The Willa Cather Pioneer …
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Annotations from the Archive: Herbaria of Webster County
… belonged and invent names of our own for them." When Willa Cather described her prairie childhood in "The Education You … are sent me." In fact, some suggestions from Swezey about classification of wildflowers of the Great Plains did …
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Annotations from the Archive: Webster County Collections
… of materials pulled from the collections of the National Willa Cather Center and the Webster County Historical Museum. Our … the lumberyard. In our Cather-focused world, we often think about Red Cloud as a sort of time capsule, largely unchanged …
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Annotations From the Archive: John Mallory Bates
… helps with sugarbeet disease. ” Robert M. Harveson in Scottsbluff Star-Herald . The Auk: A Quarterly Journal of …
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Annotations from the Archive: Benefit
… the Archive: Benefit February 6, 2023 On February 4, 1888, Willa Cather and her friends staged a musical version of “Beauty … direction of Will O’Brien and Peoriana Bogardus Sill for about two weeks. The $40 they raised from admissions to the …
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