Collections

The Cather family, their friends, and many donors have been very generous to the National Willa Cather Center over the years, contributing to collections that were begun by our organization's founders. As a result, the National Willa Cather Center houses the earliest Cather collections and continues to add new letters, photographs, personal items, artwork, and more, and makes them available to scholars and researchers.

The Collections at NWCC

The Willa Cather Foundation is a not-for-profit organization created in 1955 that owns and operates the National Willa Cather Center and the nation's largest collection of nationally-designated historic sites dedicated to an American author.

Historic Sites

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Collection Policies

Committed to Open Access

The National Willa Cather Center (NWCC) is committed to providing open access to researchers to our collections as far as possible within the limits of privacy, confidentiality, and preservation. Although many records and manuscript collections are open for use, some materials are subject to access restrictions.

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