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E-Exhibits

Each of our e-exhibits includes explores an Oklahoma history topic and includes historic images, activities, a glossary, and a bibliography.

The 45th Infantry Division

Students sitting at the Katz Drug Store lunch counter during the sit-in

The African American Civil Rights Movement in Oklahoma

African Americans in Oklahoma Before 1954

Small carvings from the Fernandina site

Archaeology in Oklahoma

Magnification of the Federal Reserve Seal featuring an eagle sitting atop a shield

Banking and the Federal Reserve

A young girl carries a large bag of cotton on her back

Child Labor in Oklahoma: The Photographs of Lewis Hine, 1916–1917

A cowboy on horseback looks towards a herd of cattle

Cows and Cowhands

Chinese Americans posted for an outdoor family portrait

A Fluid Frontier: Minority and Ethnic Groups and Opportunity in Oklahoma

Magnification of the US Constitution showing the words We the People

A man and two children run towards a house during a dust storm

The Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and New Deal in Oklahoma

Keys of a pipe organ

How Does a Pipe Organ Work?

Historical portrait of Rufino Rodrigues in a suit, tie, and brimmed hat

Latino History in Oklahoma

Materials wrapped in brown paper

The Oklahoma Century Chest

Students stand before a sod schoolhouse

Oklahoma Education

Astronaut in a space suit and helmet with Earth visible in the distant background

Oklahomans and Space

Soliders advance through tall grass as helicopters fly closely overhead

Oklahomans and the Vietnam War

Land seeker Lew Carrol poses next to a horse packed with buckets and other items

The Opening of Oklahoma

Laurie and Curly, the stars of the musical, gaze into each other's eyes smiling

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!

An evening photograph of Sonic Drive-In with illuminated signage

Sonic Drive-In: A History
In memory of Leslie Smith Baugh

Colorful painting of men aboard a moving steamboat

Steamboat Heroine

The Oklahoma Capitol

The Story of the Capitol

A man stands behind a horse-drawn plow

Tenant Farming in Oklahoma

Survivors standing in the burnt remained of structures following the Tulsa Race Massacre

The Tulsa Race Massacre

USS Oklahoma demonstrating its firepower during gunnery practice

The USS Oklahoma

Illustrated Warl War poster featuring Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer

World War I and The Art of War: WWI Posters from the Collection of Oscar Jacobson

A woman stands holding a large banner advocating for women's suffrage

Women’s Suffrage in Oklahoma