Online Research Tools

Collections Online

The Autry’s Collections Online is a database containing data and images of items from the collections of our museums and libraries. It is the public interface to our ongoing digitization program, which seeks to digitize our entire collections. Collections Online currently includes records and images for over 50,000 items.

Materials found online include art, artifacts such as tools and utensils used in daily life and ranching, decorative arts, firearms and armaments, clothing and accessories, cultural materials including our large American Indian ethnographic collections, historic photographs and photographs from Western movies, manuscript collections, ephemera, and books.

Each year our digitization program strives to delve deeper into the collections to allow the public to see and learn about the wide variety of items in the Autry’s holdings. Your research project may require “researcher level” access to view catalog records not yet in the public view. Please contact a librarian to request an ID and password at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Library catalog

The Autry’s Library catalog is a more traditional research tool than Collections Online. The Library catalog provides access to records for more than 80,000 books, journals, sound recordings, video recordings, ephemera, and manuscript collections. Users will find search results in a familiar library catalog format and can create, save, and send lists of resources for future use. There are also links to OCLC WorldCat, a bibliographic database that enables users anywhere to locate a book in a local library.

COLLECTIONS ONLINE

Learn more about the Autry's collections and explore our Collections Online database to see images of the fascinating art, objects, photographs, and documents in our collections. Your research project may require “researcher level” access to view catalog records not yet in the public view. Please contact a librarian to request an id and password at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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Collections out on loan

Museums and cultural institutions interested in borrowing objects from the Autry, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Indian Roadmaster Motorcycle

Restored 1948 Indian Roadmaster Motorcycle. Black with red accents and chrome trim. Leather tassels hang from the ends of the hand grips. The seat skirt and saddle bags are trimmed in black leather fringe. Autry National Center; 97.70.1.1.

On loan to Steel Ponies Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN. March 10, 2012 - August 5, 2012.
Nathan Turk Outfit

Burgundy and yellow wool western women's pantsuit made by Nathan Turk. Fabric label reads, "N. Turk/13711 Ventura Blvd./Van Nuys,/California/Individually Styled.” Donated by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to the Museum of the American West, Autry National Center; 2004.88.5.1-(.2)

Photo © 2011 Museum Associates/LACMA

On loan to California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. October 1, 2011– June 3, 2012
Geronimo Cigarette Card

c. 1930. Card no. 32 in a set of 50 issued by the British American Tobacco Company and picturing North American Indians. Donated by Mr. Richard Oblander, Autry National Center; 93.80.1.32.

On loan to Beyond Geronimo: The Apache Experience Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ. February 11, 2012 – January 20, 2013
Pio Pico's Dictionary

19th century. Spanish-English Manual of Conversation. Book bound in red leather with gold design along edges of cover and "Pio Pico" in gold lettering on front center of cover. "Manual de la Conversaction" printed in gold lettering on spine. Acquisition made possible by the Ramona chapter, Native Sons of the Golden West. Autry National Center; 93.21.119.

On loan to LA Starts Here! LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, Los Angeles, CA. April 19 2011 –December 31, 2012
Ute water bottle basket

Water jar, coiled basket, early 1900s. Once covered wholly with piñon nut gum, the inside is still lined with gum. It has braided black horsehair loops and the carrying strap is faded blue denim. Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection; 283.L.33

On loan to the Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum Inaugural Exhibition, Ignacio, Colorado, June 2011–June 2014
Chumash basket

Chumash or Fernandeño basket with pedestal base, juncus coiled on a three-rod juncus foundation, design in black-dyed juncus, late 1800s to early 1900s. The Caroline Boeing Poole Collection, Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection; 811.G.754

On loan to California Indians: Making a Difference at the The California Museum, Sacramento, California, March 31, 2011–August 31, 2012
Sunset on the Plains

Undated painting by Albert Bierstadt, oil on canvas. 88.108.22

On loan to the American West, a permanent exhibition at the Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, Georgia, September 2009–September, 2012
Helmet

Cabasset, Spanish. late 16th–early 17th century. Metal, leather. 88.127.33

On loan to:

A Song for the Horse Nation, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall, Washington, DC. October 29, 2011–January 7, 2013;

Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, MO. March 9, 2013 – June 2, 2013;

The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, Austin, TX. July 6, 2013 – September 29, 2013;