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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: 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: Discovering Emanuel Prettyman
… As we begin to commemorate the centenary of One of Ours , Willa Cather’s Pulitzer Prize-winner for Fiction, we look forward … include: Sayra Cather Wagner Collection The Willa Cather Foundation Collections & Archives National Archives WWI …
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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
… to the Willa Cather Foundation over several years. In 1987, acclaimed actress Julie Harris accepted the invitation of … 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
… recent addition to our archival collections at the National Willa Cather Center, Cather writes to “Mr. Perrin,” whose family … Cather Center in Red Cloud. The Willa Cather Newsletter and Review. Vol. 45, Summer 2001 . The Blue Book of Nebraska …
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Annotations from the Archive: 1937 Coronation Program Emerges
… 1937 Coronation Program Emerges September 27, 2022 Not all Nebraska historical collections contain royal memorabilia, but several in south-central Nebraska can claim a personal connection. The death of Her … 1937 coronation of King George VI was attended by Superior, Nebraska, native Evelene Brodstone, who was a lifelong …
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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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