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• Relatively brief invented prose narratives.

• Printed matter or objects devised to advertise or promote products, causes, or other concerns, especially those items given away to prospective consumers, clients, or contributors. Not used with reference to items produced before the late 19th century.

Use for: Autographs

• Persons' names written in their own hand.

• Documents pertaining to money matters.

• Published notices of a death, usually with a brief biography of the deceased.

• Contracts by which one conveys land or other property for a specified time usually for compensation or rent.

• Rectangular, flat containers made of flexible material that is folded to produce overlapping seams that are adhered together on two or three edges; often with a flag closure, and intended for small objects or documents.

• Greeting cards that are sent or given as expressions of goodwill at Christmastime. The first Christmas cards were made in the 1840s in England. The tradition is followed in all English-speaking countries and the practice is growing in many others.

• Straight-edged strips or cylinders of medium size, usually of wood, metal, plastic, or ivory and having demarcations to indicate units of measurement, used for measuring and for guiding a pen, pencil, or other marking-instrument in forming straight lines upon paper or another material. They are us Straight-edged strips or cylinders of medium size, usually of wood, metal, plastic, or ivory and having demarcations to indicate units of measurement, used for measuring and for guiding a pen, pencil, or other marking-instrument in forming straight lines upon paper or another material. They are used in geometry, drafting, drawing, carpentry, building, interior design, crafts, and other disciplines. For very long bars or strips of wood or metal having straight and true edges and used for a variety of purposes, including cutting or establishing the evenness of surfaces, use "straightedges."

Use for: Busts (figures)

• Representations of only the head and shoulders of a figure.

• Individual sides of a leaf, recto or verso; the individual sides of leaves resulting from folding a sheet, as of paper or parchment, whether blank or containing writing, printing, or other matter. Distinguished from a "folio" in that a folio is numbered on only the front side.

Use for: Guestbooks

• Books, usually of printed forms, in which visitors may write their names and addresses, and sometimes comments.

• Accounts or histories of the descent of persons, families, or other groups, from an ancestor or ancestors; enumerations of ancestors and their descendants in the natural order of succession.

• Plans of procedure, showing the sequence of items or operations and the time allotted for each.

• Documents showing items supplied, together with the prices charged for each; also, itemized bills or accounts.

• Photographs of the earth taken from aircraft. For photographs taken from beyond the earth's atmosphere, use "space photographs." For photographs of celestial bodies or astronomical phenomena, use "astrophotographs."

• Flexible, transparent sheets of film bearing a series of microimages on a flat sheet of film, usually arranged in a grid pattern, to be read by magnification on specially designed equipment; normally having an identifying strip legible without magnification.

Use for: dissertations

• Written treatises presenting the author’s scholarly investigation or original research on a specialized subject. Examples are treatises submitted for an advanced academic degree or historical European treatises written by the praeses or primary professor and defended by the respondent or degree candidate.