Catalogue methodology - Database: vital statistics
28,400 images fully catalogued and present on the videodisc.
Catalogue language: English (presentation of caption
texts and other original documentation).
920 entities (albums, files, boxes of negatives with
a common origin etc) catalogued as such.
6,000 different proper names of persons and institutions
etc recorded
280
photographers
600
photo studios
185
institutions or firms appearing on photographs
5,100
named individuals appearing on photographs
3,720 geographical and ethnographical terms (including
sysnonyms), the former arranged in a hierarchy so that it
is possible to search by individual place, by region and by
state
1,700 thematic keywords (including synonyms), arranged
in 18 sections and 62 sub-sections (see Table 6.2)
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