Western Oral History Program: Norm Weinberg
This week we welcome back Intern/Volunteer Keith Rice for another guest blog post regarding his work on the Autry National Center’s Western Oral History Program. Read more about the program in his first post, second post, and third post. Norm Weinberg was born in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles, California, in 1929. This … Read more
Educational Wish List
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
Western Oral History Program: Journeys and Dirt Roads
This week we welcome back Intern/Volunteer Keith Rice for another guest blog post regarding his work on the Autry National Center’s Western Oral History Program. Read his first post and more about the program here. . John Byron was born on October 28, 1920. In his oral history he shares some thrilling tales of life … 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
Flash and Dazzle! Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors’ Archive
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
A Day in the Life of an Archivist (or: Archiving is Dirty Work)
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
The “G” Shall Not Be Jellified!
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
Autry Librarians in the community
More and more people are delving into their family secrets and closeted skeletons in the quest to find out where they came from, said Marva Felchlin, director of the Autry Library, who on Tuesday spoke at “Preservation of Personal Histories,” a workshop at the Santa Monica Library. “Especially with (the popularization of) electronic media, and … Read more
