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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 … been mounted to a cardboard backer, no other clues exist about the photographer, the studio, or the occasion. The …
Posted: 04/19/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Thornton Oakley
… Thornton Oakley March 27, 2022 Any researcher can tell you about an “accident of the archives.” A misfiled photo or … to our collection separately, though both originated with Willa Cather’s niece, Helen Cather Southwick. Both had come to us …
Posted: 03/16/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
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 … writing and connected it to her own life. “When she writes about her childhood, you can’t help but think about yours . …
Posted: 10/20/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Herbaria of Webster County
… lacked many of the common plants to be found on the Central Plains and to the West. Thankfully, others were quicker to … the director of—the Department of Natural History and Geology at Doane College. The 1891 letter answers a letter … from Swezey about classification of wildflowers of the Great Plains did become accepted within the scientific …
Posted: 06/17/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
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 … the lumberyard. In our Cather-focused world, we often think about Red Cloud as a sort of time capsule, largely unchanged …
Posted: 02/25/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
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 …
Posted: 01/27/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
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 … things with which we are most familiar that we know least about. Familiarity seems to dull the edge of our curiosity. …
Posted: 11/20/2019
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
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 … newspaper copies, was printed in the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter & Review in 1989. When Dr. Steven Trout … visited Red Cloud to conduct research for his book Memorial Fictions in the mid-1990s, he discovered that in the few …
Posted: 04/23/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Emil Frei Windows Are Beautiful Inside—And Out!
… windows, both inside or outside the church! We talk about the windows often and their history as memorials to the Willa Cather’s family and friends in the church. We know the …
Posted: 12/15/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Our Organizational History
… of 1957, Mildred Bennett and the founding members of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial felt that their work in Red Cloud … that surrounded Willa Cather and sometimes disagreed about how to preserve her legacy. The Willa Cather Pioneer …
Posted: 03/06/2023
Last Updated: 05/23/2023