16 Nebraskaland • June 2020
Nebraskaland Magazine has long been a scrapbook of sorts.
Its pages serve as portals into the history of our state. They
track nearly a century's worth of conservation work by the
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and pay homage
to Nebraska's unique range of fl ora, fauna, eco-regions
and parklands – as well as the many outdoor recreation
opportunities they aff ord the people of Nebraska.
Not only do Game and Parks staff frequently consult back
issues of Nebraskaland for research about past and current
outdoor information, but so do our subscribers. The pages of
the magazine are also a source for families looking for long
ago images of loved ones, or even of themselves.
Vintage issues of Outdoor Nebraska, the predecessor of
Nebraskaland, are hard to come by. While we here in the
Nebraskaland staff offi ces have long been able to thumb
through many of those rare and crumbling pages, even our
own archives lack physical copies of most of those early
issues. In fact, no one repository houses a complete run of the
entire magazine, from start to fi nish.
Now, in a collaborative eff ort between the Nebraskaland
Magazine Photo Library and the Center for Digital
Research in the Humanities at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, the fi rst 50 years of the publication are
available in the Nebraskaland Magazine Digital Archive:
https://nebraskaland.unl.edu/.
The archive is fully searchable, allowing users to view,
browse and explore all issues of the magazine, 1926-1976.
Additional years will be added as they become available,
with a one-year lag behind the current subscription year.
Whether you're looking for information about the history
of the Nebraska State Parks system; advice on how and
where to hunt, fi sh or generally engage with the outdoors;
want to learn more about the incredible diversity of plants,
animals and eco-regions across our state as well as about the
people who enjoy them – the Nebraskaland Magazine Digital
Archive is a good place to start.
Jackie Vogt is the photo librarian for Nebraskaland Magazine
and the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.
NEBRASKALAND DIGITAL ARCHIVE ONLINE
By Jaclyn Cruikshank Vogt
IN THE FIELD
