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After these years of great activity came a period of relative decline in collecting, due to the Great Depression and the Second World War. In the mid-1920s, however, the number of anthropology graduate students grew dramatically. Along with their collections, mostly from California, came important donations from faculty and the community. During the 1930s, the museum appointed its first faculty curators from disciplines outside anthropology, such as Classics and Egyptology. In 1931, all the museum’s collections were moved back to the Berkeley campus, where they were housed in the old Civil Engineering Building. Displayed only two weeks a year, they were preserved for researchers.
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