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Annotations from the Archive: Explore the Collection Online
… work. Mildred Bennett collected pieces by well-known Nebraska painters, Grant Reynard and Elizabeth Dolan, and …
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Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days
… Monthly and McClure's , and earlier writing ventures in Nebraska, would help her to forge valuable connections and …
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Literary Societies—Annotations from the Archive
… students returning to school, we always think of Frances Cather, Willa Cather's Mount Holyoke-educated aunt who came West to … found on a western Nebraska "junk jaunt" and brought to the National Willa Cather Center; one of the texts, The French …
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Annotations from the Archive: Business Papers
… Cloud and Hastings.” Cather was particularly dismayed to learn the farms she owned in Webster County were also in … into Cather’s business affairs, make plans to visit! The archives at the National Willa Cather Center are open … of your time in Nebraska, you should also visit the Cather collections at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and …
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Annotations from the Archive—The Right Reverend George Allen Beecher Letters
… Image Annotations from the Archive—The Right Reverend George Allen Beecher Letters June 25, 2020 The …
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Annotations from the Archive: Discovering Emanuel Prettyman
… copies, was printed in the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter & Review in 1989. When Dr. Steven Trout visited Red Cloud to … only image of Prettyman identified. Research continues to learn more about Prettyman’s life; his military records and …
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Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail
… letters from a reader must surely have come from fellow Nebraskan and author Kate McPhelim Cleary, though delivered indirectly. Cleary, who in 1884 moved to Hubbell, Nebraska, where she and her family struggled to survive, was … not had that experience.” Samuel McKelvie, who served as Nebraska governor from 1919 to 1923, also recognized …
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Annotations from the Archive: Julie Harris Estate Item Joins the Collection
… Prize, ‘Driving Miss Daisy’—I’m afraid we don’t play Nebraska but by next May [1989] when the tour ends, I’ll be …
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Annotations from the Archive: Thanksgiving Traditions
… of July, the most characteristic and most patriotic of all American gala days, its origin is seldom referred to and its … left in almost total obscurity. We have come to regard this great feast day of ours as a thing that came about because … a little house in Canada, and I have lived in a good many places in the world, but no one place is as dear to me as …
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Annotations from the Archive: Thornton Oakley
… Howard Pyle; she had sent him an inscribed copy of The Troll Garden in 1906, referencing the Cather children's love of …
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