Statistics about Institutions and companies associated with the English collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum 1884-2007
How much do we know about the institutions?
Total number of institutions and companies currently stands at 332. Many web and hard copy resources have been used to find information about individuals; some, however, are more standardized and full:
13 of these institutions or companies now have entries on the PRM biographies database [3.9%]
2 are mentioned in the DNB [0.6%][so these ones have full biographies]
63 are mentioned in Wikipedia [18.9%]
[Note: these categories are not mutually exclusive]
Naturally this is significantly fewer than for individuals, however significantly more of them (who still trade) have their own websites with information about them therefore more readily available
How many of them do we have portraits / links to portraits?
[per cent]
|
Career |
No of individuals known to have done this career |
% of 332 [total number of institutions] |
|
Army |
1 |
0.3 |
|
Builder |
1 |
0.3 |
|
Dealer |
13 |
3.9 |
|
Manufacturer |
208 |
62.6 |
|
Musician |
1 |
0.3 |
|
Publisher |
5 |
1.5 |
|
Trader |
44 |
13.2 |
Unsurprisingly manufacturers are the most important profession.
All other professions had no matching institutions or companies
Relationship with PRM
Makers 212
Field Collectors 7
Donors 76
[Note: these categories are not mutually exclusive]
|
Status |
Number |
% |
|
Makers |
212 |
63.8 |
|
Field Collectors |
7 |
2.1 |
|
Donors |
76 |
22.8 |
|
Other owner status only |
44 |
13.2 |
|
Field collectors who are also Donors |
4 |
1.2 |
|
Makers who are also Donors |
3 |
0.9 |
|
Donors who are not field collectors or makers |
69 |
20.7 |
How many institutions and companies are associated with particular kinds of collections?
Archaeology 25
Ethnography 313
Other 6
Photographs * 4
Postcards * 0
Sound archives * 1
[Note: these categories are not mutually exclusive
* Note that these categories are artificially deflated as none of the individuals only recorded in the photographs database or sound database are yet included
How many individuals gave from each county?
|
County |
Number of individuals associated with objects from that county |
% |
|
Bedfordshire |
0 |
0 |
|
Berkshire |
3 |
0.9 |
|
Birmingham |
8 |
2.4 |
|
Bristol |
2 |
0.6 |
|
Buckinghamshire |
3 |
0.9 |
|
Cambridgeshire |
2 |
0.6 |
|
Cheshire |
0 |
0 |
|
Cleveland |
0 |
0 |
|
Cornwall |
1 |
0.3 |
|
Cumbria |
0 |
0 |
|
Derbyshire |
0 |
0 |
|
Devon |
2 |
0.6 |
|
Dorset |
3 |
0.9 |
|
Durham |
0 |
0 |
|
Essex |
5 |
1.5 |
|
Gloucestershire |
3 |
0.9 |
|
Greater Manchester |
1 |
0.3 |
|
Hampshire and Isle of Wight |
3 |
0.9 |
|
Herefordshire |
0 |
0 |
|
Hertfordshire |
2 |
0.6 |
|
Kent |
6 |
1.8 |
|
Lancashire |
0 |
0 |
|
Leicestershire |
1 |
0.3 |
|
Lincolnshire |
2 |
0.6 |
|
London [Greater] |
97 |
29.2 |
|
Merseyside |
2 |
0.6 |
|
Norfolk |
4 |
1.2 |
|
Northamptonshire |
4 |
1.2 |
|
Northumberland |
0 |
0 |
|
Nottinghamshire |
0 |
0 |
|
Oxfordshire |
52 |
15.6 |
|
Rutland |
0 |
0 |
|
Shropshire |
2 |
0.6 |
|
Somerset |
9 |
2.7 |
|
Staffordshire |
3 |
0.9 |
|
Suffolk |
2 |
0.6 |
|
Surrey |
1 |
0.3 |
|
Sussex |
5 |
1.5 |
|
Tyne and Wear |
0 |
0 |
|
Warwickshire |
0 |
0 |
|
West Midlands |
0 |
0 |
|
Wiltshire |
5 |
1.5 |
|
Worcestershire |
2 |
0.6 |
|
Yorkshire |
13 |
3.9 |