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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp

… Following are excerpts of that process gleaned from past newsletters. [Scroll down to read what was entered into the … Nebraska.] It Began With a Letter Writing Campaign The WCPM newsletter urged “loyal Cather admirers” to write on behalf … and alive by using your influence?” In the winter 1972 newsletter it was noted that plans were going forward for a …
Posted: 09/06/2023
Last Updated: 09/07/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… p. 1  Societies p. 2  Publications p. 2  Donors p. 3  The Register p. 4  Carrie Miner Sherwood Profile p. 5  … and Music p. 3  New Publications about Cather p. 3  Expense Account— Preservations and Restoration p. 3  Dedication of … Tao Yuanming and Hiawatha  AUTHOR: Li Wenjun p. 18  TITLE: Account of the Peach Blossom Source  AUTHOR: Tao Yuanming p. …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Serena's Album

… more colorful entries was made by a precocious 14-year-old signing herself “Wm. Cather M.D.” This entry by Serena’s … and self-concealment. Many of the young people who signed Serena’s album display a youthful bravado that stands … . The epigraph credited to Shakespeare is probably a corruption of a line from Richard II: “Nay, let us share thy …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Annotations from the Archives: A Map of the World

… Image Terry Sheahan's 1994 map Image Newly created map of Webster County's immigrant communities Image … population throughout the county. When we began to create the narrative for the new interpretive plan at the … was consulted from the years 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920 to account for inconsistencies of recorded names. Nebraska …
Posted: 03/31/2026
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Finding Aids

… association with them are available on microfilm: The Index of Pittsburg Life , The Library , The Home Monthly , … 10/3/1968 The Red Cloud Chief 10/1/1873 to 11/22/1923 The Index of Pittsburg Life 10/6/1900 to 1/4/1902 The Library … Book Inventory Box 11 Research Materials Full box of index cards and notes for Mildred Bennett's book,  The World …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… country focus on educating patrons and the general public about the value of archives. It’s easy to connect the … the questions she gets most often. How do you pronounce Cather? According to Henry Blackman Sell in a short article for the Chicago Daily News , Cather is "pronounced to rhyme with rather, if you …
Posted: 10/15/2025
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

Annotations from the Archives: The End of an Era for the Chief

… from the first extant Red Cloud Chief, October 9, 1873 Volume I, No. 15, is the first surviving issue of the Red … local history or, in our case, exploring the life of Willa Cather. We know that Willa Cather held a warm place in her … a regular reader of that newspaper. Decades later as Cather Studies were just beginning, it was through those preserved …
Posted: 09/01/2024
Last Updated: 09/04/2024

Press Room

… that follow for contact information, buzz about Cather, her ongoing relevance, links to our social media, … setting for fiction; she taught her readers how to see the prairie-plains. She built worlds. Cather’s evocation of the … , Rissell Ventura, NTV ABC, May 28, 2022 Get Involved Support Our Work The Willa Cather Foundation is a 501(c)(3) …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days

… the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection in the Special Collections and Archives at the National Willa Cather Center that relate … out of life. At first I rebelled at some things, I had to learn that every editor is not a Mr. Gere or a Mr. Jones. …
Posted: 05/19/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

Remembering Our Fallen

… located in the George Cather Ray collection at the UNL Archives and Special Collections. For more information on …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

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