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• Reproductive prints of architectural plans, maps, mechanical drawings, and other technical drawings, characterized by having white images on blue backgrounds and produced by the blueprint process. For blue images on white backgrounds, use

• Describes material or content created in electronic form and saved as digital data, having had no initial or interstitial state as an analog or physical product. Usually used to refer to electronically produced drafts of text, correspondence or visual works such as photographs created with digital cameras. This material may be written or saved on personal computers, floppy disks, CDs, DVDs, hard drives, or any mode of digital storage media.

Use for: Broadsides

• Format in which a large sheet of paper is printed on only one side, and not folded.

• Printed or graphic material intended for promotional or publicity purposes, such as small printed works describing the features or amenities of a place, an organization, or other concern.

• Permits required by local governmental bodies for new building, or for major alteration or expansion of existing structures. Applications, building plans, estimated costs, and a fee are usually required before a permit is issued.

Use for: Busts (figures)

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

Use for: Buttons

• Ornaments or badges for wearing, as on a lapel, stamped or printed with designs or slogans.

Use for: calendars

• Registers of days or other contrivances for reckoning days, months, years, etc., such as a table showing the division of a given year into its months, weeks, days, years, or other divisions of time. A calendar may include important astronomical data, ecclesiastical or other festivals, and other events belonging to specific days.

Use for: Card games

• Sets composed of playing cards plus other items designed to be used together in games in which the primary activity during a round of play involves the use of the playing cards.

Use for: Cartography

• Any materials representing, in whole or part, the earth or any celestial body at any scale.

• Pictorial images, usually drawings, that are humorous or that use wit and satire to comment on contemporary events, social habits, political trends, or other topical subjects, often executed in a broad or abbreviated manner. Originally referred to full-page illustrations in a circulating paper or periodical, especially when comical and relating to current events.

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.