Students in Russ Crawford's HIST 2771 Digital History class created a virtual museum to house images of objects that Ada resident Lee Crouse has collected over the years. Crouse began acquiring his materials during a 1995 class reunion. According to Crouse, "How this come about, I don't really know... It just kept growing. There's not hardly a week goes by that we don't find something. It's fun, and it just grows. You don't know what's out there. Some people say 'You got everything?'" Crouse answered, "Apparently not."
In addition to Crouse's items, students also added images of artifacts that the HIST 2901 ONU at 150 class taught by Crawford and David Strittmatter for the university's sesquicentennial in 2021.
Click on this link to take a tour of the virtual museum.
https://www.artsteps.com/view/6332256b63146ad42bcb8f56
You can hit play at the bottom of the page, and the program will go from item to item. If you would like to move faster, you can click on the forward to the right of the play button. On the control panel on the top left of the page, you can click on the sound icon to mute the music. Click on the text under the picture of Lee Crouse to hear his description of his process.
Students who worked on this project included Alexandria Ayers, Olivia Balon, Katie Bohn, Tucker Harris, Katie Hauter, Jarrod Jones, James Meyers, Madison Putnam, Lochlyn Ramsey, Jacob Wagner, and Brooklynn Zahler.
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