Current collection counts are based on inventories of prime collections (firearms, business machines, textiles, etc.), high number counts for individual catalogue series, and estimates for items catalogued in the Anthropology ledgers.
“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
- William James, American Philosopher and Psychologist
Adamson, Joy. The Peoples of Kenya. New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace, and World, Inc., 1967.
Appiah, Kwame Anthony and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds. Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. New York, NY: Basic Civitas Books, 1999.
Barrett, Samuel A. and Ira Edwards, eds. Yearbook of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 1928: the Cudahy-Massee-Milwaukee Public Museum African Expedition, 1928-29. Milwaukee, WI: North American Press, 1930.
“Mars is the only known planet inhabited by robots.”
- Brian Solis, American Speaker & Author
"How can I hope to be friends
with the hard, white stars
whose flaring and hissing are not speech
but a pure radiance?”
- Mary Oliver, American Poet
“Black holes are the seductive dragons of the universe, outwardly quiescent yet violent at the heart, uncanny, hostile, primeval, emitting a negative radiance that draws all toward them, gobbling up all who come too close…”
- Robert Coover, American Novelist
“It was one of those March days when the Sun shines hot and the wind blows cold:
When it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
~Charles Dickens