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• West-fever by Brian W. Dippie; introduction by James H. Nottage (collection highlights)
• Western Amerykanski: Polish Poster Art and the Western, edited by Kevin Mulroy (Polish posters)
• How the West Was Worn, by Holly George-Warren and Michelle Freedman; foreword by Marty Stuart; introduction by James H. Nottage (text related to the How the West was Worn exhibition can be found in the Learn More section)
• Southwest textiles weavings of the Navajo and Pueblo by Kathleen Whitaker (including scope notes, see subject records)

Early 20th century California

• Guy Giffen’s photographs of missions and adobe houses, circa 1930s.
• Points of interest around California, including Catalina Island, the Mount Lowe Railway, Stanford University, Griffith Park
• Photographs of El Alisal (1898-1928), the house of Charles F. Lummis, founder of the Southwest Museum
• Photographs taken after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
• California agriculture

California natural history
• Lantern slides of landscapes throughout California, including the San Gabriel Canyon and Yosemite.
• Historic photographs (portraits and family portraits, ranches, military, farming and agriculture, houses and schools, flora and fauna, 19th-century cyanotype photograph album from the Arizona Territory with 180 photographs

North American Indians
• Photographic documentation of California Indians, including lifestyle (houses, schools, food preparation) and demonstrations of how cultural items were made and used by various Southern Californian tribes.
• Photographic documentation of the removal of the Cupeño Indians from Warner’s Ranch to the Pala Reservation, including research done by the Warner’s Ranch Commission to analyze the arability of the land and measuring water flow
• Photographic documentation of archaeological sites and excavations from central and southern California
• Photographs from the Hopi Reservation
• Photographic documentation of Plains Indians lifestyle and portraits from the late 19th to early 20th century, including photographs by Edward S. Curtis, Frank A. Rinehart

Rodeo photographs

19th-century mug shots

• Eva Scott Fenyes’ watercolors of missions and adobe houses, dating between 1898 and 1930
• Carl Eytel's drawings of the Southern California desert, by Carl Eytel used in George Wharton James’ The Wonders of the Colorado Desert, 1905
• Works by other Western artists including Joe de Yong, Will James, Maynard Dixon, Charles Russell, Albert Bierstadt, John Woodhouse Audubon, George Catlin, Charles Bird King
• Ledger drawings by Howling Wolf (Cheyenne) and Zo-Tom (Kiowa). These drawings were created by the artists while incarcerated at Fort Marion, Florida in 1876

• Photographs of the Southwest Museum under construction and original galleries
• Hand-painted posters (1930s-1950s) advertising Southwest Museum lectures by H. Arden Edwards, artist and founder of the Antelope Valley Indian Museum
• Works by the Works Progress Administration, circa 1930s and 1940s.
• Photographs of the opening of the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, now known as the Museum of the American West

California Indians
• Baskets made by Pomo Indians, including miniature and feathered baskets, from northern California

Southwest Indians
• Textiles created by Navajo and Pueblo Indians, including those featured in Kathleen Whitaker’s, Southwest Textiles Weavings of the Navajo and Pueblo, 2002.
• Hopi Katsina dolls
• Zuni fetishes

Plains Indians
• Moccasins

• Firearms, including shotguns, rifles, pistols, revolvers, derringers
• See also Collection Spotlight: Arms and Armor at the Autry National Center
firearms.

• Listings for sound recordings of Native American songs, Hispanic songs, Western music, including listings for sound recordings of Southern California Indian songs by Charles Lummis and Maidu songs recorded by Frances Densmore.
  
• Sheet music

• Artifacts associated with some permanent exhibitions, including: gold rush and mining (see also Benjamin Carpenter or letter sheets, technical instruments for exploration and other tools, maps, religious life, California families: Sepúlveda family, Pico family, Vallejo family
• Furniture and furnishings
• Seeing Women in the West (included in Learn More section)

• Over 1,200 movies catalogued: see subject records
• Posters, lobby cards, costumes, television and movie props
• Items from silent Westerns, Western serials, Western movies, foreign Western movies, and Western television programs.
• Costumes and costume design, including Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors, Edith Head, and Margaret Miele

• African Americans, Hispanics, North American Indians, women, cowboys, cowgirls, landscapes, seascapes, religious imagery
• 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 )