Frank Cather, Postcard Collection
Title: Frank Cather
Postcard Collection
Creator: Cather,
Frank, 1886-
Dates: 1905-1911
Quantity: 1 box (0.2 linear
feet)
Collection Number: MS 0060
Language: English
Restrictions: None.
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Preferred Citation: Frank Cather Postcard Collection (MS 0060). Archives & Special Collections,
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Biography:
Born in 1886, Frank Cather and his twin brother Oscar grew up in Webster County,
Nebraska. Willa Cather and Frank were first cousins. Frank's brother, G.P. Cather,
who died in World War I, served as the prototype for the main character, Claude
Wheeler, in Willa Cather's novel One of Ours. Frank
Cather taught school at Campbell, Nebraska, from 1904 to 1906. In 1906, he moved to
Boston, where he studied piano at the Boston Conservatory of Music. At the end of
the summer of 1907, he left Boston to spend several weeks with family members in
Clearbrook, Virginia. Cather eventually returned to Nebraska and filed a homestead
claim in McPherson County where he lived until he returned to Webster County in
1915.
Scope and Content:
The collection consists of postcards Frank Cather received from friends and family
between 1905 and 1911. The postcards illustrate the Cather family's ties with its
native Virginia as well as the close relationship between Cather and his brother
G.P. There are 165 postcards arranged chronologically.
Subjects:
Cather, Frank, 1886-1927
Cather, Grosvenor Phillips (G. P.), 1883-1918
Homesteading
Frontier and pioneer life
Surveying--Nebraska
United States Army -- Military life
United States Navy -- Military life
Container List:
Box 1. Postcards, 1905-1911
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