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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 … in California. Our collections also contain a sampling of Willa Cather’s own filing system. She kept certain letters, …
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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 … we received, an early image of John Esten (Jack) Cather, Willa Cather’s much-loved youngest brother, was taken at the …
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Annotations from the Archive: Julie Harris Estate Item Joins the Collection

… Estate Item Joins the Collection October 20, 2021 The Willa Cather Foundation Art Collection boasts nearly thirty … particular interest in the scenes described in the works of Willa Cather. Bergers and his family gifted these original …
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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 … help the less fortunate in town. Fannie Adelsheim Wiener, Willa Cather’s neighbor and fellow lover of literature, was …
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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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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 … was the personal botany book of Frances Smith Cather, Willa Cather's "Aunt Franc," and shows heavy use. Inscribed …
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Annotations from the Archive: Thanksgiving Traditions

… —from the essay, "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle," by Willa Cather [ The Nation , September 5, 1923] Thanksgiving, as … Thanksgiving seems to have been especially meaningful to Willa Cather. She often visited family in Red Cloud at that …
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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 … were central to our understanding of early Red Cloud and Willa Cather’s adolescence here, as well as her use of …
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Annotations from the Archive: 1937 Coronation Program Emerges

… of Carrie Miner Sherwood and Mary Miner Creighton—and Willa Cather! Brodstone was reportedly the highest salaried woman … contact our archivist, Tracy Sanford Tucker, at ttucker@willacather.org. For a link to more images and information, …
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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 … interested in forage plants and their diseases. Willa Cather was chided by Bates for including butterfly …
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