Title

The title given to the record.

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Maker/Author/Artist

The creator of the item.

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Subject

Specific word or phrase generated by the Library of Congress, The Getty Museum, or similar institution used to find and organize the museum’s collections by topic.

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Description

A description of a record’s contents, written by the Historic New Orleans Collection.

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Collection type/s

Specific word or phrase created by THNOC to find and organize the museum’s collections by type.

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Object name/s

Specific word or phrase generated The Getty Museum, used to find and organize the museum’s collections by type of object.

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Collection theme/s

Specific word or phrase created in-house by the Historic New Orleans Collection to find and organize the museum’s collection by topic.

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Entity type

Types of entities you can find in Collections search – these include items, exhibitions, persons and institutions.

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Record level

Types of record you can find in Collections search – these include individual items, groups of items, series and more.

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Object Number

A number the Historic New Orleans Collection gives an object and uses to identify it.

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· an exact record number – e.g. MSS 557

· the start of a record number with a * at the end – e.g. MSS*. This will find all record numbers that start with, MSS.

This field searches for the exact term you enter and is case sensitive.

Century

The century containing the start date or end date for a record.

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Start year

The earliest date on the record.

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· an exact year

· a range of years to get records with a start date within your range

End year

The last date on the record.

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· an exact year

· a range of years to get records with an end date within your range.

If you know the dates a record was in use, create a range by entering:

· the first year in the From field in Start year, and

· the last year in the To field in End year.