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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
… George Allen Beecher, who served as Bishop of Western Nebraska from 1910-1943, shared a long friendship with Willa …
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Annotations from the Archive: Discovering Emanuel Prettyman
… the years. After her death, a great deal of Wagner’s Cather collections were donated to us in Red Cloud, including … clippings. Because we were just beginning to build our new archives at the National Willa Cather Center, storage space … 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: Thanksgiving Traditions
… as spring is in the Old World." —from the essay, "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle," by Willa Cather [ The … above at the Willa Cather Archive at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. …
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Annotations from the Archive: Julie Harris Estate Item Joins the Collection
… thirty original oil paintings by John Blake Bergers (1931-2011), a professional artist who dedicated his life to … Harris joined four hundred other Cather enthusiasts for bus tours of Webster County literary sites, visits to St. … an Omaha benefit performance “for the Cather Foundation building fund,” Bennett wrote. The performance would have to …
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Annotations from the Archive: Thornton Oakley
… at the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska. June 23, 1914 letter from WC to Elizabeth Shepley … the Complete Letters of Willa Cather at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; original letter located in the Literary … “Shady Side Academy to Grow, Admit Girls.” University of Nebraska Archives, “Helen Cather Southwick” Richard Harris's …
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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: Our Organizational History
… expand the legacy of Willa Cather far beyond the borders of Nebraska. And it worked. The Mildred Bennett Collection …
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Annotations from the Archive: Herbaria of Webster County
… regards Swezey's publication of a sixteen page pamphlet, Nebraska Flowering Plants . He notes that Franc's "list of … tools for measuring plant growth, compiled circulars on Nebraska butterflies and crustaceans, and collected fossils, … professor of Astronomy and Meteorology at the University of Nebraska in 1896. But in addition to this trove of …
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