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OHC Atrium and an exact-sized replica of the Winnie Mae that Wiley Post flew around the world twice.

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Front entrance with the Allen Houser sculpture “Unconquered.”

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American Indian Gallery featuring a Pawnee Star Chart. The tribe gave the History Center permission to reproduce the star chart.

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Another view of the American Indian Gallery showing an example of a log cabin. One of the focuses in this gallery is the different living environments from which various tribes came.

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Another view of the center of the American Indian Gallery.

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Business and Industry in Oklahoma. The Leeway Truck from the trucking company headquartered in Oklahoma and the Sonic sign. This was the neon sign that replaced one that read “Top Hat Drive In” in Shawnee, OK when the owner changed the name. The company is now headquartered in downtown Oklahoma City.

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This gallery examines how Oklahomans see themselves and how others see us, mainly through entertainment. Here we see the entrance to our exhibit on Radio and Television in Oklahoma.

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The Wild West shows were among the earliest forms of mass entertainment. This stagecoach was originally used for the run from the Santa Fe Depot in what would become Oklahoma City to Fort Reno in the early 1880s. After the first east-west railroad was built through, the stage became part of the Miller Brothers Wild West Show. After the show was disbanded in the 1930s, it was donated to the Oklahoma Historical Society.

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This gallery examines how Oklahomans see themselves and how others see us, mainly through entertainment. Here we see the entrance to our exhibit on Radio and Television in Oklahoma.

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The military history of Oklahoma, looking through the skeleton of a C-47. This is the World War II exhibit.

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This Civil War artillery piece was used at the Battle of Honey Springs in Southeast Oklahoma. The battle involved almost 12,000 men from both sides and was the largest Civil War battle fought in the territory. The display behind the gun explains the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry. This unit was made up of freedmen and escaped slaves from the territory who went north to Kansas to fight for the Union.

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The Oklahoma History Center at night.

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An overhead view of the Oklahoma History Center.

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An evening view of the Oklahoma History Center.

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