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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: Red Cloud's Founding
… only the original papers, but digitized newspaper and photo archives, our mobile app, and more. As we work to gather …
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Annotations from the Archive: Our Photo Collections Continue to Grow
… donors to our Willa Cather Foundation Special Collections & Archives. Since our organization’s earliest days, the …
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Annotations from the Archive: Emil Frei Windows Are Beautiful Inside—And Out!
… is Cather’s letter to Carrie Miner Sherwood, sent on June 7, 1928. Written just three months after her father’s death, … roof on the church. It seems then, as now, the old church building was being improved and repaired! But we know from … Hospital administration by arriving for an unannounced tour. We can only conjecture about when memorial windows …
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Annotations from the Archive: Holiday Cookery
… and clipped recipes from newspapers. [NOTE: Click on links for free online editions of these cookbooks!] From …
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Annotations from the Archive: Thanksgiving Traditions
… hot summers; triumphant autumns that last until Christmas—a season of perpetual sunlight, blazing blue skies, and frosty … nights. In this newest part of the New World autumn is the season of beauty and sentiment, as spring is in the Old … was not difficult, as the country was teeming with buffalo, deer, antelope, wild geese, ducks, prairie chickens and …
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Annotations from the Archive: Julie Harris Estate Item Joins the Collection
… treasures from the Willa Cather Foundation Collections & Archives HERE . …
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Annotations from the Archive: The Death of G.P. Cather
… owe a debt of gratitude to the archivists at the National Archives in St. Louis, Michael Knapp of the American Battle … curious about our Willa Cather Foundation Collections & Archives at the National WIlla Cather Center in Red Cloud, …
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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 Archive: Thornton Oakley
… 2022 Any researcher can tell you about an “accident of the archives.” A misfiled photo or document may cross a … to be discovered. Such was the circumstance in our archives when Edith Lewis’s two watercolor sketches of Grand … Side Academy to Grow, Admit Girls.” University of Nebraska Archives, “Helen Cather Southwick” Richard Harris's article …
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