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Use for: Catalogs

• Enumerations of items, such as a file of bibliographic records or a list of art objects, usually arranged systematically and with descriptive details; may be in book or pamphlet form, on cards, or online. Catalogs are created according to specific and uniform principles of construction and usually under the control of an authority file.

Use for: Cityscapes

• Refers to creative works that depict settlements that may be considered cities, which are large or important communities with population, status, and internal complexity greater than most towns in the region.

• Creative works, usually two-dimensional, depicting an outdoor scene dominated by the land, hills, fields, sky, trees, fields, rivers or other bodies of water, and other natural elements. Landscapes may include a near point of view in the foreground, but also usually depict a view into the distance. Landscapes may contain architecture or figures, but the primary focus remains the land. When an ocean, sea, or other large body of water dominates the picture, use "seascapes." For actual areas of land rather than depictions, use "landscapes (environments)."

• Small printed works consisting of one small-sized leaf of paper folded and not stitched or bound, containing printed matter, chiefly for gratuitous distribution.

• General term for cartographic works made by human observation and surveying, prior to the invention of complex scientific cartographic equipment in the 19th century and later. Ancient maps are documented by the 7th century BCE; star maps dating to 14,500 BCE are found on the walls of the Lascaux caves.

• Maps intended to introduce a region or locality to tourists, who are visitors to an unfamiliar place, particularly those who travel for pleasure or culture, usually to visit a number of places with the goal of experiencing places of interest and scenery.

• Periodicals containing articles, essays, poems, or other writings by different authors, usually on a variety of topics and intended for a general reading public or treating a particular area of interest for a popular audience.

• Photographs produced by the wet collodion process directly on lacquered metal, usually iron.

• Refers to a broad class of photographs having images in gray tones, black, and white, and sometimes one hue (which can result from chemical processes used, including toning, or from aging).

• Photographs created with a digital camera, which is a cameras that acquires still or motion pictures via an electronic sensor and stores them as digital information on a memory device.

• Notices, usually decorative or pictorial, intended to be posted to advertise, promote, or publicize an activity, cause, product, or service; also, decorative, mass-produced prints intended for hanging. For small printed notices or advertisements intended for distribution by hand, use "handbills."

• Short coats for the upper body made in various forms and lengths, but usually no lower than the waist or upper hip; worn indoors or for light warmth and protection from the weather.

• Printed pieces such as notices or advertisements intended for distribution by hand or by mail. For those intended for posting, use

• Adhesive-backed slips of paper or similar thin material, usually bearing messages or designs.

• Exact copies of an original object, usually in the same dimensions as the original, especially of books, documents, prints, and drawings. Today often reproduced photographically; in the past, reproduced by engraving or other printmaking process.

• Compact discs on which a large amount of digitized read-only data can be stored.

Use for: Ambrotypes

• Photographs produced by mounting a negative (made by a variant of the wet collodion process) that is on glass with a dark backing, which makes the image appear as a positive. Came into wide use in the United States in the early 1850s.

• Refers to the most popular and common form of stereoscopic photographs, which are double photographs of the same image taken from two slightly different perspectives. Stereographs are distinctive among other stereoscopic photographs because they are photographic prints mounted on cards, while other types could be daguerreotypes, negatives, or unmounted prints. From 1856 they were produced with twin-lens cameras, creating a three dimensional effect when viewed through a stereoscope. Stereographs were especially popular during the Victorian period.

• Records kept by public officials or other persons relating to their official duties, but not necessarily readily available to the public. For private documents belonging to individuals, use "personal papers."