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   from the issue of September 15, 2005

     
 
Libraries receive 5,000-plus Sandhills images

The UNL Libraries has received a donation of more than 5,000 color slides and negatives of the Nebraska Sandhills from UNL alumnus Jim Ducey.

The photographs are titled the "Great American Sandhill Collection" and will be a part of the original records and photographs on the region housed in University Archives and Special Collections.

The collection complements other papers held in University Archives, particularly the papers of individuals who did important and innovative research on the natural history of the Great Plains, such as faculty members Charles Bessey, Raymond Pool and Paul Johnsgard, and other scholars such as Walter Kiener and Frank Shoemaker.

Ducey's photographs, along with earlier records, illustrate changes to the Sandhills region over the past 75 years.

They provide an unparalleled opportunity to research changes in the cultural geography and environmental history of the Nebraska Sandhills.

The collection includes slides and negatives taken between 1979 and 2005. The photos range from birds such as nesting ibis, terns, night-herons and cormorants near Valentine; to lakes such as Thompson and Hoover lakes in Sheridan County; and landscapes and ranch scenes in Bessey National Forest and Cherry, Thomas and Grant counties.

A database detailing locations, dates, and key topics or people in included with the photographs.

Ducey, an independent researcher and photographer, has focused his research on birds, bird distribution and bird history in Nebraska and the Great Plains. Ducey also donated a species database and more than 1,000 transcribed and encoded Nebraska newspaper bird accounts from 1854 to 1923. The species database and articles provide the foundation for the "Birds of Nebraska" Web site presented by the E-Text Center at University Libraries http://etc.unl.edu.

The University Archives and Special Collections, 29 Love Library, is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information, call 472-2531.


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