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Hi Lydia, For us, our accessioned artifact collection is numbered much like other institutions, 2022.001.001 for example. For items we place in the Education Collection, we start the number with EDU. So a reproduced uniform shirt used on a mannequin would be numbered something like EDU.223.001. The ...

Hi Lydia, I'll chime in and agree with what a few others have said about how they go about tracking props/non-historical items. One way that we do this is to add the items to our Education Collection. This gets us around fully accessioning them (and then needed to go to our board to deaccession them), ...

Hi Judy, I would highly recommend contacting the WWI Museum in Kansas City. They probably have ways that can help you determine if the dirt is really from the trenches and how they go about preserving items that are in that kind of state. You may also want to try and contact the Imperial War Museum ...