On the 25th Anniversary Timeline 1995: The Autry Research Center is open!
On the 25th Anniversary Timeline 1995: The Autry Research Center is open! PRESERVATION AND ACCESS! Gene Autry participated in many grand openings during his long public career, but given his great interest in preserving the history of the American West, one of his proudest moments may have been cutting the ribbon to the Research Center … Read more
MS.605 Mary Hunter Austin Collection, 1868-1954
Part of the Series: Archives Ready and Set In continuation of the “Diamonds in the Rough” blog series, “Archives Ready and Set” will highlight the online finding aids and catalog records of the archive collections processed with a grant from the NHPRC. This award made it possible for the Libraries and Archives of the Autry to … Read more
The Importance of Accumulation or A Few of My Favorite Little Things
Part of a Series: Diamonds in the Rough Through a grant-funded project awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the Autry National Center sets out to process approximately 2,000 linear feet of archival material over two years, ending in 2012. Every third week of the month, the Autry Libraries blog will feature … Read more
Researching The Frontier of Leisure at the Libraries and Archives of the Autry
The libraries and archives of the Autry National Center contain a vast collection of materials on the history of California and the American West. As a graduate student at UCLA, and as a recipient of a summer research fellowship, a visiting scholar fellowship, and former employee of the libraries and archives of the Autry, I … Read more
Artifacts as Heirlooms: A Lummis Family Story
To acknowledge the month of Charles Fletcher Lummis’s birthday, we asked poet and museum teacher Suzanne Lummis for an anecdote about her grandfather to go along with our March 1 post. Interesting thing about an artifact or object worthy of being displayed behind glass in a museum: although it can’t tell its story, it has … Read more
Happy Birthday to Charles F. Lummis, founder of the Southwest Museum!
Charles Fletcher Lummis was a visionary, an eager student, and an even more eager teacher. When we hear his name we usually think first of his strong character, but we must also remember him as a collector and the founder of a museum. Pictured here are some samples from his collection. Besides artifacts, Lummis also … Read more
THINKING ABOUT ARCHIVES AND CULTURAL SENSITIVITY
As director of the Braun Research Library for more than 20 years I’ve had the pleasure to work with many diverse Native American communities and have formed many lasting relationships; this is the part of my job that I find most fulfilling. Over this period I’ve also curated 19 exhibitions and worked on several others … Read more
The Dear Old Jib-O-Jib (Squatters at the Harbor)
Part of a series: Diamonds In The Rough Through a grant-funded project awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the Autry sets out to process approximately 2,000 linear feet of archival material over the next two years. Every third week of the month, the Autry Libraries blog will feature collection gems brought … Read more
