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Annotations from the Archives: Homesteading and Home-Building in the Archives
… our collections which may not yet be online; you can reach Tracy Sanford Tucker at ttucker@willacather.org. …
Posted: 08/16/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023
Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings
… Willa Cather writes in New Hampshire Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings August 1, 2023 As has been … the most pertinent portion of the review or article. Our collections include hundreds of such clippings, some … part of the United States. . . . From this experience I learned a lesson. The better the advertising, the worse it …
Posted: 07/25/2023
Last Updated: 08/01/2023
Museum Collections Associate Wanted!
… Museum Collections Associate Wanted! December 5, 2022 Job Title: … related to the care and preservation of our collections and archives. This person will be trained in the use of … organizational skills. Ability to follow instructions and learn proper methods of preservation procedures. Shows …
Posted: 12/05/2022
Last Updated: 12/28/2022
Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker
… to move to a digital collections management system, update our policies and procedures, and begin rehousing some … Some things go very quickly—a single page letter with a date? That’s straightforward. Mystery items like the lancet … having an organization and center in her name? Did she save any correspondence from others, or then “future …
Posted: 10/24/2022
Last Updated: 11/22/2022
The Willa Cather Foundation
… Image The Willa Cather Foundation dba the National Willa Cather Center The … and groups of all backgrounds, worldviews, and identities. Learning: We continuously learn and teach. Professionalism: … and conservation of the 612-acre Willa Cather Memorial Prairie ; Coordination of an immersive summer teacher …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/08/2024
Willa Cather's Red Cloud
… and education as a child, restored and open today with events and performances throughout the year. Our Special … is her childhood bedroom and its original wallpaper in The Song of the Lark or the Miner House that became the Harling home in My …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/05/2024
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 …
Posted: 07/20/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days
… (March 28, 1897), with these observations at the start of Cather's early and prolific career in magazine writing and … literary tastes are, her club standing, her home, her legal studies, how she came to take them up etc. You know what I … bank he is president of. Well I did'nt mean to write you a volume, and of course nothing may come of it. But my …
Posted: 05/19/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
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 …
Posted: 04/23/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Spotlight on the Farmers and Merchants Bank Restoration
… offices before being purchased in 1959 by the Willa Cather Foundation. Following efforts to convert the building for … to our Campaign for the Future . If you, too, would like to support the rehabilitation of the bank, please donate online or mail your gift to the Willa Cather …
Posted: 08/16/2021
Last Updated: 07/19/2022