The collections in the Independence Hall have been managed and categorized into contributed, entrusted and duplicated materials. Entrusted materials are the ones that an individual or organizations entrust to the Independence Hall temporarily or permanently. Duplicated materials are the ones that have possibility of being damage or disappear so it has limited in the use and has been copied from the original data.

The present conditions of collections on as of January 31, 2004 is as follows.

Division/
Type

Books

Docu
ments

Note

Writing& Painting

Picture

Armo
ry

Inherited
Properties

The
Others

Entrus
tment

Copy

Total

The Number of Items

6,088

5,992

31

386

1,366

109

542

1,381

560

2,230

18,685

Number

10,234

25,989

69

458

11,843

167

987

10,812

2,723

10,280

73,562