Accession Numbers
What are they?
An accession number is what curators use to keep track
of an item in a collection. Each number is unique to
that item, and is its primary identifier.
It looks like:
yyyy.ddd.nnnn
The yyyy is the year that the object was aquired.
The ddd is the number of the source that donated
the object. For example, if there were three donors to a
collection, there would be the numbers 001, 002 and 003
in the ddd field.
The nnnn is the actual number that is given to
the object within the collection.
For example, at Point Ellice House, the porcelain water
filter in the kitchen has the number of:
1975.001.8749
which indicates that it was aquired in 1975 (as was all of
the collection), and that there was only one donor (the
collection was bought as a whole), and that it was assigned the number
8749 as its unique identifier.
Some numbers also begin with PE975.This is another way of separating
the objects kept at Point Ellice House from objects in other
heritage sites around the province.
So when doing a search by the accession number of an object,
only the last four digits are required, as 1975.001. is
common to all the pieces in the collection.
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