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Art museums (institutions)

Use for: Art museum (institution), Museums, art (institutions), Museums of art (institutions)

  • Institutions that collect and maintain works of art displayed for public benefit.
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Snow

Use for: Snowfall

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Dance parties

Use for: Dances

  • Here are entered works dealing with informal dances. Works concerned with formal dances are entered under [Balls (Parties).]
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Architecture, Domestic

Use for: Architecture, Rural, Domestic architecture, Home design, Houses, One-family houses, Residences, Rural architecture, Villas

  • Here are entered works on the architectural aspects of residences. Works on the history and description of human shelters are entered under [Dwellings.] Works on the social and economic aspects of housing are entered under [Housing.]
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Underwater exploration

Use for: Exploration, submarine, Exploration, underwater, Ocean exploration, Submarine exploration, Under water exploration , Undersea exploration

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Education

Use for: Children--education, Education, primitive, Education of children, Human resource development, Instruction, Pedagogy, Schooling, Students--education, Youth--education

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Instamatic camera

Use for: Pocket instamatic camera

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Mountains

Use for: mountain

  • Prominent landforms rising considerably above the surrounding area, typically having steep slopes, a sharp summit area, and large mass. Mountains rarely occur individually, and in most cases, are found in ranges, chains, or systems.
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Personnel records

Use for: Personnel record, Files, personnel, Personnel files, Records, personnel

  • Records maintained by an organization for each of its employees giving personal details and information relating to their service.
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Art museums--Exhibitions 46
Photography--Exhibitions

Use for: Photographs--Exhibitions

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Toys 48
Art galleries, Commercial

Use for: Commercial art galleries, Print galleries, Prints--Galleries and museums

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Administration buildings

Use for: administration building, administrative buildings, administrative office buildings, administrative services buildings, buildings, administration

  • Buildings constructed or used for offices from which the management and other administrative duties of an organization or institution are conducted.
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Actors (performing artists)

Use for: Actor (performing artist), Actresses (performing artists) , Actress (performing artist)

  • Persons who use movement, gesture, facial expressions, speaking, and intonation to create a fictional character for the stage, motion pictures, or television.
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Stereoviewers (wheel type)

Use for: View-Master, View Master

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Winter

Use for: Wintertime

  • Usually the coldest season of the year, occurring between autumn and spring.
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Architectural models

Use for: Architectural models, Models, architectural

  • Representations that visualize architectural projects in three dimensions, often including a representation of the surrounding site or context, and usually, but not necessarily, built to scale.
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Dealers (Retail Trade)

Use for: Sellers

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Hats 44
Hotels

Use for: Hotels, taverns, etc, Inns

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Radio stations

Use for: Radio station, Radiostations, Radiostation

  • Broadcasting stations for sending and receiving radio programming transmissions; for rooms and spaces designed for the origination or recording of radio programs, use
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Sports

Use for: Field sports, Pastimes, Recreations

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Art in universities and colleges

Use for: Campus art

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Universities and colleges (1)

Use for: Colleges, Degree-granting institutions, Higher education institutions, Higher education providers, Institutions of higher education, Postsecondary institutions

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Schools (institutions) (2)

Use for: School (institution)

  • Organizations or establishments that provide instruction.
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Disasters

Use for: Calamites, Catastrophe

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Metallurgy

Use for: Metallurgical

  • Study of the structure of metal and alloys as related to properties that are important in their technological utilization.
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Career education
  • Here are entered works on the efforts of educational institutions and the community to teach individuals the values of a work-oriented society in preparation for meaningful employment. Works on vocational instruction within the standard educational system, usually at the secondary level, are entered under [Vocational education.] Works on the process of training individuals in a particular skill after termination of their formal education are entered under [Occupational training.] Works on retraining persons with obsolete vocational skills are entered under [Occupational retraining.] Works on on-the-job training of employees are entered under [Employees--Training of.]
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Carriages and carts

Use for: Cabs, Carts, Coaches (Carriages), Hacks (Carriages)

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Churches (buildings)

Use for: Church (building), Church architecture, Church buildings, Kirks (buildings)

  • Buildings for public Christian worship that are distinguished historically from chapels and oratories, which are buildings that are in some respect private, or not public in the widest sense. Church architecture generally somewhat follows standard models, which vary depending upon the date, location, and characteristics of the congregation.
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Photographic lenses

Use for: Photographic lens, Camera lens, Camera lenses, Lenses (photographic), Lenses, camera, Lenses, photographic

  • Solid shaped pieces of transparent material which gather and select light rays reflected from a subject so that they enter the camera and form an image of that subject on the film.
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Statues

Use for: Statue, Statuary, Figure sculpture

  • Sculpture in the round, usually but not always depicting humans, animals, mythical beings, or small figure groups. Statues are relatively large in scale, being life-size, larger than life-size, or only slightly smaller than life-size. For small-scale representations of humans, animals, or mythical beings, use
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Photography--Lighting 42
Television specials

Use for: Special programs on television, Specials, television

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Medicine (1)

Use for: Clinical sciences, Medical profession

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Nursing

Use for: Clinical nursing, Nurses and nursing, Nursing process

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arch bridges
  • Bridges in which the main supporting elements are arches.
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Bridges (built works) (1) 37
Swimming

Use for: Bathing (swimming)

  • The activity of a person or animal propelling themselves in the water by natural means of progression, such as floating and kicking or paddling the limbs. For the activity of cleansing, prefer
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Apartment houses (1)

Use for: apartment house, apartment buildings, apartment building, apartment blocks, blocks of flats, houses, apartment

  • Buildings, often multiple-story, containing more than one dwelling unit, most of which are designed for domestic use but sometimes including shops and other nonresidential features. Apartment houses have been in use since ancient times, notable examples having been known in ancient Rome and among ancient Native Americans. The apartment house as known today first appeared in Paris and other large European cities in the 18th century, when tall blocks of apartments for middle-class tenants became common.
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cooperative apartment houses

Use for: cooperative apartment house, apartment houses, cooperative, apartments, cooperative, co-operative apartment houses, cooperative apartments, cooperatives (houses), co-ops (houses), coops (houses)

  • Apartment houses owned and managed by a corporation in which shares are sold entitling shareholders to occupy individual units in the building.
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Portraits, Russian

Use for: Russian portraits

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Ships

Use for: Vessels (ships)

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Projectors (1)

Use for: Film strip projectors, Magic lanterns, Projection apparatus, Stereopticon

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Motion picture projectors

Use for: Moving-picture projectors

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Exhibit booths

Use for: Booths, exhibit, Exhibition booth, Exhibitions--Booths

  • Booths where art works or goods are exhibited or sold.
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Exhibitions (1)

Use for: Exhibits, Expos (Exhibitions), Expositions, Industrial arts--Exhibitions, Industrial exhibitions, International exhibitions, Technology--Exhibitions, World's fairs

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Fishing
  • The sport or business of catching fish
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Graphic arts

Use for: Graphic art, Graphics (graphic art), Arts, graphic

  • Processes and techniques for making images using the arts of printmaking, illustration, drawing, and other techniques that depend upon line and not color to render the design. In historical usage, the term referred more broadly to presentation in two-dimensional visual form, including most arts on paper, panel, or canvas, including painting.
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Art--Exhibitions 31
Farms

Use for: Farm, Complexes, farm, Farm complexes, Farmsteads

  • Complexes where plants or animals are raised for livelihood or commerce.
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Lakes (bodies of water)

Use for: Lake (body of water)

  • Bodies of fresh or salt water surrounded by land.
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Shipwrecks -- North Atlantic Ocean 0
Architectural photography

Use for: Photography, architectural

  • Specialization of photography focused on architecture as subject.
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Lawns

Use for: Yards (lawns)

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Nursing schools

Use for: Hospital training-schools, Schools of nursing, Training schools for nurses

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Olympics

Use for: Games, olympics, Olympic games, Summer olympics

  • Here are entered comprehensive works on the Olympics, as well as general works on the summer Olympics. General works on the winter Olympics are entered under [Winter Olympics.]
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Photography--Exposure

Use for: Exposure, photographic

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Technology

Use for: Applied science, Arts, useful, Science, applied, Useful arts

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Winter Olympics

Use for: Olympic games (winter), Winter Olympic games

  • Here are entered general works on the winter Olympics. Works on the winter Olympic games of a particular year are entered under the appropriate name heading, e.g. [Olympic Winter Games (20th : 2006 : Turin, Italy).]
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Commercial buildings

Use for: Commercial building, Commercial structures, Architecture, commercial, Buildings, business, Buildings, commercial, Business facilities, Commercial architecture, Commercial facilities, Facilities, business, Facilities, commercial

  • Use broadly to refer to buildings associated with any aspect of the various activities and business relationships of industry and trade; when referring to structures associated with the purchase, sale, or exchange of goods in business, use
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<photography and photographic processes and techniques> (14)
  • (<image-making processes and techniques>, <processes and techniques by specific type>, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name))
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Photographic techniques (13)

Use for: Photography technique, Photography techniques

  • Use with regard to specialized procedures related to how a photograph is taken or composed, or is manipulated during or after processing. Use
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Colour photography

Use for: Chromophotography

  • Generally, the art or practice of taking and/or processing photographs that reproduce hues perceptible to the human eye. Extended to include imagery in which colors have been artificially enhanced or altered.
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Black-and-white photography

Use for: Black and white photography , Photography, black-and-white

  • The art or practice of taking and/or processing photographs whose images are composed of gray tones, black, and white, and sometimes one hue, which may result from toning or aging.
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Flash photography

Use for: Photography, flash, Electronic flash photography

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Kirlian photography
  • A process to record the surface conduction characteristics of an object or material by placing it on photographic film, which is then exposed by the blue and ultraviolet light of a corona generated by a high-voltage, high-frequency power.
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Radiography

Use for: x-ray photography

  • The making of radiographs, images produced on photographic film by a radiation other than light, especially x-rays or gamma rays. Modern radiography systems are moving away from x-ray sensitive film to produce these images, with a digital plate replacing film. For the science or practice of dealing with x-rays or nuclear radiation in general, use
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aerial photography

Use for: air photography, aerophotography, airborne photography, photography, aerial , photography, air

  • Refers to the activity of taking photographs from aircraft. The term may also be used to refer to any photography from the air, including photographs obtained by cameras mounted on aircraft, rockets, or Earth-orbiting satellites and other spacecraft. The purpose of photography from airborne or spaceborne vehicles is generally to provide information on ground features for military and other reconnaissance, or to record the dimensional disposition of such features for surveying or mapmaking. To refer specifically only to photography taken from beyond the Earth's atmosphere, use
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Underwater photography

Use for: photography, submarine, photography, underwater, submarine photography

  • Refers to the activity of taking photographs while below the surface of water, often occuring in tandem with activities such as scuba diving, snorkeling, swimming, or from a submersible or remotely operated underwater vehicle. Either waterproof cameras or dry work cameras stored in waterproof housings are used to produce underwater photography.
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multiple exposure 0
Picture-taking techniques (10)

Use for: Techniques, picture-taking , Picture-taking technique

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chronophotography 0
high-speed photography (still photography) 0
telephotography 0
Photographic processes

Use for: Photographic processing

  • Procedures by which light-sensitive materials are made to produce an image. For procedures related to how a photograph is taken or composed, or is manipulated during or after processing, use
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Diffusion transfer process

Use for: Instant photography, Diffusion transfer

  • Photographic process used primarily for instant or self-developing photographs in which the positive image is formed from undeveloped silver halides in the negative. The negative is placed in contact with a support in the presence of a developing agent, and the unexposed silver diffuses to the support to form the positive image. For making color instant camera photographs, it is dye couplers that are in the negative, in which case use
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Miniature cameras

Use for: Miniature camera, Cameras, miniature

  • General term applied to any 35mm (or smaller) camera.
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Photography--Printing papers

Use for: Photography--Papers

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Machinery

Use for: Machinery--Curious devices, Machines

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Medical imaging equipment industry 27
Medical supplies

Use for: Medicine--Equipment and supplies, Hospital supplies, Medical products, Supplies, medical

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Students

Use for: Pupils, School life, Student life and customs, Student--Education

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Entertainers (1)

Use for: Performers, Performing artists, Show business personalities, Show-men

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Travel

Use for: Travelling, Travelled

  • The action, condition, or cultural concept of visiting different cities, countries or regions, especially distant or unfamiliar places, whether by necessity or for pleasure or education. One common purpose of travel is to see different sights and acquaint oneself with cultures different from one's own.
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hospital architecture 1
Security 0
HVAC 0
Minstrel shows

Use for: African American minstrel shows, Blackfaced minstrel shows, Negro minstrel shows

  • Here are entered works on the 19th and early 20th century entertainments in which comedians portrayed racial stereotypes.
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Restaurants

Use for: Cafes, Dining establishments, Restaurants, lunch rooms, etc.

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Variety shows (Television programs)

Use for: Television variety shows, Variety programs (Television programs), Variety television programs

  • The encyclopedia of television, via the Museum of Broadcast Communications Web site, May18, 2007:Variety programs (Variety shows almost always featured musical (instrumental, vocal, and dance) performances and comedy sketches, and sometimes acrobatics, animal or magic tricks, and dramatic recitations; variety series)
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Mass media (1)

Use for: Mass communication, Media, Mass, Media, The

  • Here are entered works on the modern means of mass communication. Works on the communications industries treated collectively are entered under [Communication and traffic.] Works on human communication, including both the primary techniques of language, pictures, etc. and the secondary techniques, such as the press and radio, are entered under [Communication.]
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Television broadcasting

Use for: Telecasting, Television--Broadcasting, Television industry

  • Here are entered works on the transmission of television programs that are intended for general public reception. Works on the technical aspects of television transmission, including television transmitters, are entered unde
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Box cameras

Use for: box camera, Camera, box, Cameras, box

  • Early type of camera consisting of a lightproof box, with lens, shutter, and viewfinder, and employing film rather than a plate.
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Stereoscopic cameras

Use for: double-lens cameras, twin-lens cameras, stereo cameras

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College buildings

Use for: Universities and colleges--Buildings, University buildings

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Directories
  • Here are entered general works on the history and description of directories and directory-making.
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Blackface entertainers

Use for: Black-face entertainers, Entertainers, Blackface, Minstrels (Blackface entertainers)

  • Blackface is a form of theatrical make-up used predominantly by non-Black performers to represent a caricature of a Black person. It refers to the racist act of artificially darkening the skin in an attempt to impersonate Black people.
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Food

Use for: Foods

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