Transcript Primary Source Photos

Examining Photos
as Primary Documents about
Oklahoma’s History
Oklahoma County
Sheriff’s Department, 1896
Downtown Guthrie, 1905
Downtown Oklahoma City, 1890
Near
Fort
Sill,
1890
African-American homesteaders
near Stillwater, 1891
USS Oklahoma,
Pearl Harbor, 1941
Segregated School House, 1955
City Hall, OKC, 1958
Oklahoma & the Depression Through
Photographs
The Dust Bowl, Oklahoma,
1930s
On Route 66 to California
Weedpatch camps, Southern California
“Sandtown” (Shanty towns)
South May and Canadian River, OKC