| Decade |
Number of objects accessioned |
Cumulative number of objects |
| 1880s |
25234 |
25234 |
| 1890s |
15966 |
41200 |
| 1900s |
17749 |
58949 |
| 1910s |
24725 |
83674 |
| 1920s |
31102 |
114776 |
| 1930s |
41671 |
156447 |
| 1940 - 1945 |
23029 |
179476 |
- Table of Contents
- Compare different Continents Statistics
- Introduction to comparative continental statistics
- Compare Colonial Status
- Colonial Status Part 1
- Colonial Status Part 2
- Colonial Status Part 3
- Compare Size of Collections
- Classes comparison
- Classes & Continents
- Classes & Decades Part 1
- Classes & Decades Part 2
- Continents, classes, decades Part 1
- Continents, classes, decades Part 2
- Continents, classes, decades Part 3
- Continents, classes, decades Comparison Part 1
- Decades, continents, geographical spread
- Archaeological & Ethnographic comparison per continent
- Continent / Decade Snapshots
- Archaeological & Ethnographic artefacts by continent and British colonial affiliation
- Archaeological & Ethnographic comparison per continent
- Continent / Tools and weapons comparison
Decade by decade acquisition pattern for PRM 1880 - 1945
Numbers of objects acquired in each decade:
[article ID:185]
Cumulative Acquisitions by the PRM up to 1945 as percentage of total 1945 collection
[article ID:186]
Total number of objects up to 1945 - 179765
Total number of objects with identified year (decade) of acquisition - 179476
[that is, the total of the above figures in the table]
Total number of objects without identified date of acquisition - 289
[this accounts for less than one per cent of the overall collection]
In other words by the start of 1890 14 per cent of the 1945 collection had been acquired; by 1900, 23 per cent; by 1910 33 per cent; by 1920 47 per cent, by 1930 64 per cent; by 1940 87 per cent with the remaining 13 per cent mostly coming in the 1940 - 1945 period (although there are the 289 entries without clear year of acquisition).
Cumulative Acquisitions by the PRM up to 1945 as percentage of total PRM collection*
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* Note that of course the total number of objects in the collections is always rising and therefore it is difficult to get a base figure so we have taken the figure we used in the original global statistics of 274,624 (total number of objects as at 24 June 2003)
In other words by the start of 1890 9 per cent of the 2003 PRM collection had been acquired; by 1900 15 per cent; by 1910 21 per cent; by 1920 30 per cent, by 1930 42 per cent; by 1940 57 per cent, by 1945 65 per cent (this includes the unyeared entries).
