March 8, 2011

This 1975 photograph of the male eastern bluebird is just one of the approximately 58,000 items created by renowned wildlife photographer Thase Daniel that are housed in Ouachita Baptist University’s Riley-Hickingbotham Library in Arkadelphia (Clark County). The Jefferson County native and world traveler shot almost a quarter of a million images in a career that lasted approximately thirty years. By the time of her death in 1990, she had become one of the world’s leading nature and wildlife photographers.