Winnie’s Travels

Alabama Department of Archives and History

California Historical Society

Greetings from California! Winnie Mae flew through our exhibition Yosemite: A Storied Landscape and landed at our Manuscript Archivist Marie Silva’s office!

Connecticut Historical Society

We took Winnie Mae on a whirlwind tour around our permanent exhibition, Making Connecticut. This exhibit covers more than 400 years of Connecticut’s history. Colorful, interactive, and filled with more than 500 historic objects, images, and documents, Making Connecticut is the story of all the people of Connecticut, from the 1500s to the present day.

Greater Southwest Historical Museum

Winnie Mae stopped by to visit the 700 Ranch House, one of the first homes built in Ardmore during the railroad construction.

International Women’s Air & Space Museum

Jones & Plummer Trail Museum

The Lost City Museum

In Overton, Nevada, Winnie Mae flies through The Lost City.

Maine Historical Society

Military History Museum

Winnie Mae glided through the Military History Museum in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

Mississippi Old Capitol Museum

Winnie Mae simply had to visit Mississippi’s Old Capitol Museum in Jackson. There she is outside the Old Capitol, listening in on Senate debates, examining our post-Civil War Constitution, hanging out in our Mississippi Hall of Fame, and looking out over the balcony in the House of Representatives chamber.

Montana Historical Society

National World War I Museum

While flying through Kansas City, Winnie Mae visited the National World War I Museum.

New-York Historical Society

Welcome to the New-York Historical Society, Winnie Mae! Founded in 1804, the New-York Historical Society is the second-oldest museum in the country. Let’s go inside!

Soldiers and Sailors Monument

Winnie Mae tours the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Cleveland, Ohio. The monument was dedicated on July 4, 1894, and was built to honor the 9,000 men from Cuyahoga County who served in the American Civil War.

South Carolina Historical Society

While at the South Carolina Historical Society, Winnie Mae liked exploring the minds of some of the United States’ founding fathers, such as South Carolinians Henry Laurens (1724–1782) and John Rutledge (1739–1800). Winnie was fascinated to learn that the South Carolina Historical Society has some documents and primary sources of these famous men! Winnie thought it was really cool to spend time in the society’s home, the Fireproof Building, which was designated as fireproof when it was built in 1827; a time when whole cities were sometimes devastated by a small fire. Winnie also realized that the ideals of these South Carolinian founding fathers, though so far from Oklahoma and so long ago, formed the democratic United States where we live today, more than 200 years after the American Revolution.

South Dakota Historical Society

Winnie Mae arrived at the South Dakota Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre, and the museum staff gave her a tour of the museum galleries.

Stafford Air and Space Museum

We had fun with Winnie Mae around the Stafford Air and Space Museum! Here are three pictures of her with our Stafford Scholars who walked her around showing her the museum and posing in front of the Wright Flyer, the Apollo spacecraft, and the Titan II rocket.

Tulsa Air and Space Museum

Winnie Mae felt right at home among the aircraft at the Tulsa Air and Space Museum.

Will Rogers Memorial Museum

Wyoming State Museum