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Use for: Broadsides

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

Use for: Clippings

• Illustrations, pages, articles, or columns of text removed from books, newspapers, journals, or other printed sources and kept for their informational content.

• Visual works produced by drawing, which is the application of lines on a surface, often paper, by using a pencil, pen, chalk, or some other tracing instrument to focus on the delineation of form rather than the application of color. This term is often defined broadly to refer to computer-generated images as well.

• Items created, manufactured, or used for a specific, limited use; typically intended to be used for a short period and discarded thereafter, although ephemera is often actually collected.

• Notes, often in books, kept by researchers or surveying parties while on site.

Use for: Roadmaps, Streetmaps, Street maps

• Performing arts genre having to do with the combining of vocal or instrumental sounds in measured time to communicate emotions, ideas, or states of mind, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and, in most Western music, harmony.

• Complete, nonperiodical printed works generally of fewer than 80 pages, often with a paper cover, sometimes short treatises on arguments or topics of current interest. For smaller printed works, of one sheet folded and not stitched or bound, use "leaflets." An independent publication consisting of a few leaves of printed matter fastened together but not bound.

• Publications issued at regular intervals, but not daily, containing articles on various subjects by different authors for the general reader.

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

• Representations of real individuals that are intended to capture a known or supposed likeness, usually including the face of the person. For representations intended to be anonymous, or of fictional or mythological characters, see "figures (representations)."

• Original and entire drafts or transcripts of musical compositions or arrangements. Typically having the parts of all the different instruments or voices written on staffs one above another, so that they can be read at a glance.

• Timetables listing the arrival and departure schedules, routes, and names of the stops for a transportation service.

• Records that relate to budget, personnel, supply, and similar facilitative operations within an organization.

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.

• Pieces of cloth or other flexible material, usually attached along one side to a pole or cord, intended for such purposes as symbolizing a nation or organization, or as a means of signaling.

• General term for copies produced by photocopying, that is, in a machine employing a light-sensitive process, and usually at a one-to-one scale. In the early to mid-20th century, used regarding copies made by various specific processes; since the mid-20th century, most often refers to xerographic copies.

• Copies of a work in typewritten form, as distinguished from those in printed or handwritten form.

• 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.