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Our Collections Online includes integrated searching of more than 17,000 records—including more than 14,000 images—from the Museum of the American West artifact collections, and more than 40,000 records from our library databases.

Please explore the Learn More section to learn about some of the themes explored in our galleries-the Related Records button will get you to the images. And don't forget to click on the object name to see the full records, where you will find subject links to other records within the database.

New records and images are added every month, so check back for more!
How do I use Collections Online?
What’s included in Collections Online?
When will the Southwest Museum artifacts be online?
Which artifacts from the Museum of the American West can be found in Collections Online?
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  • Do a keyword search by typing any object name, subject, or topic. (Plural and singular versions of a term may retrieve different results; try both separately or use the asterisk (*) for truncation.)
  • To find extended Content or to help narrow search results, click on the subject records in the search results or the Learn More section on the top menu bar.
  • Click on the object name in the search results to see all images associated with an object (esp. lobby cards, rope).
  • Use the page numbers in the search results to skip to the next object type.
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  • Autry Library and Braun Research Library records for all catalogued secondary source materials
  • Records and images for more than 50% of the Museum of the American West collections
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Southwest Museum artifacts will start to become available online at the end of 2004. The first records planned to go online are the Navajo and Pueblo textiles.

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Publications of the Autry National Center: Ranching and cowboys:

Saddles, throwing rope, branding irons, spurs, firearms, clothing and dress, photographs such as Tracy Ranch in California.

Rodeos:

Photographs, trick roping, clothing and dress.

Law enforcement:

Badges, 19th-century mug shots, firearms.

Musical instruments

History and life in the West: Images of the West:
  • Art and artists such as Joe de Yong, Will James, Maynard Dixon, Charles Russell, Albert Bierstadt
  • Photographs, posters, lobby cards, costumes, television and movie props
  • Movies and motion picture industry (over 1,200 movies catalogued: see subject records)
  • Wild West shows and Buffalo Bill
  • Ephemera and books: Brochures, postcards, crate labels, trade catalogues, dime novels, collectible cards (arcade cards, baseball cards, cereal cards, lobby cards, trade cards), comic books, books (see library records for images of book covers and sheet music)
Other selected themes:

Advies Bootverzekering , Boat Reference , Miche Fotografie , Ship Care , Vergelijk Bootverzekering , Waterservice

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Autry Collections Online catalogue is made possible by the Getty Grant Program's Electronic Cataloguing Initiative and is an MWeb museum website (html, javascript & system copyright 1997-2004 Systems Planning).


Project Manager:
Rebecca Lachter Menendez

Designer:
Tony Bailey

Imaging:
Carmel France
Barry Gernstein
Mayfield Marshall
with special credit to Susan Einstein

Cataloguing:
Laura Lambros
Kathleen Brzezinski
Nicole Sieminski
Scott Frank
Catherine Butler
Kathleen Chapman
Holly Isaacson
Kate Bergeron
Anne Kindseth

Content:
Cheryl Miller
Marva Felchlin
Cindy Culver
Louise Pubols
Amy Scott

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