Percy Grainger's working copy of the Grainger Museum Index Numbers

Percy Grainger's working copy of the Grainger Museum Index Numbers

This is Percy Grainger's original index of the Grainger Museum Collection, partly typed and partly hand-written, approximately 130 pages. At the start of the volume is a "Rough alphabetical guide to Grainger Museum Index Numbers", followed by the Index itself. The numbering system created by Percy Grainger provides rich insights into his curatorial and archival process, as he ordered the evolving contents of his Museum in Melbourne. Many of the objects and documents in the Collection were marked with individual numbers from this catalogue system, by Percy and Ella Grainger.

Grainger Museum Collection

c. 1930s-1950s

Grainger Museum

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