In a sentence
Six example sentences with accession, each labelled with its topic.
Last year's accession brought in ninety prints, and the registrar is still finding shelf space for the largest of them.
Art
Steady accession over two centuries turned a private shelf of maps into a national collection of forty thousand sheets.
History
The library records every accession by date, so you can see exactly which novels arrived the winter the town flooded.
Literature
The seed bank logs each new accession with its collection site, so a wheat sample can be traced to one Anatolian field.
Science
The sound archive's largest accession arrived in 1998, four thousand reels from a radio station that had closed.
Music
The museum's accession of the studio's negatives doubled its holdings and took two archivists a year to catalog.
Photography
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