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• Handwritten documents, particularly books and other documents created before the invention of the printing press. May also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.

• Books or treatises, often compendious, containing rules or instructions needed to perform tasks, operations, processes, occupations, arts, or studies, and intended to be used as reference while the task or study is performed.

• Lists or invoices of cargo or passengers, as of a ship or plane, usually containing marks or indications of contents or commodity, consignee, and other pertinent information for use at terminals or customhouses.

• 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.

• Clippings from magazines. Includes articles, images, covers, etc. (archivist supplied description).

Use for: LPs

• Phonograph records originally invented by Columbia Records, first introduced in 1948. The records have a rotational speed of 33 1/3 rpm (revolutions per minute), and have very fine grooves. They, along with 45 rpm records, replaced 78 rpm records in popularity.

• Records in which are entered sequential data, especially about activities or transactions that occur in a system.

• Transcribed collections of numbers, names, or other text indicating tallies of concepts collocated for any particular purpose.

• Mechanical devices meant for lighting cigarettes, cigars, and pipes.

• Pieces of correspondence that are somewhat more formal than memoranda or notes, usually on paper and delivered.

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• General term for documents having legal relevance.

• Expositions of a given subject delivered before an audience or class, especially for the purposes of instruction.

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

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

• Transparent positive images made or mounted on glass for projection, usually but not necessarily photographic, measuring 3 1/4 to 3 1/2 by 4 inches for projection onto a screen by means of a specialized projector.

• 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)."

• Books containing accounts of an individual's or organization's occurrences or transactions, including records of financial transactions. Use "diaries" when referring to personal accounts of the writer's experiences, attitudes, or observations.

• 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.