- General Tips

To search, type words or phrases in the search box and click the "Submit" button. The search engine will check the descriptions, assigned subject headings, dates, box and folder numbers, and id numbers of images for matches. By default, the search engine uses the "Match all words" menu option to find images with all the search terms you specify.

- Finding Exact Phrases

To refine your search, use the "Match exact phrase" menu option to the right of the search box to match your search terms exactly, in the order in which they appear.

- Broadening Your Search

If your searches do not produce any matches, try broadening your search using the "Match any words" menu option to the right of the search box. This will find images that match at least one of your search terms.

- General Tips

The Advanced Search allows you to search for images associated with a date or date range, and to search for terms within the image description and subject headings fields.

- The Image Description Field

The search terms you enter into the Image Description area will be matched with text in the image caption and image description fields. You may search on the Image Description field alone or in combination with the Subject and Date fields.

- The Subject Field

You may search on the Subject field alone or in combination with the Image Description and Date fields.
Each image in the collection has been assigned between one and nine descriptive subject headings. If you know the subject headings you would like to search on, enter them in the "Subject" area. For a list of subject headings to choose search terms from, click the Subject link to the left of the search box. A second window displaying an alphabetical index will open. Click a letter in the index to view lists of subject headings beginning with that letter.

- The Date Field

The Date field cannot be used alone; use it in combination with the Image Description and/or Subject fields to further refine your Advanced Search.
Dates must be entered in the following format:

YYYY-MM-DD

You may search for a single date by typing the date in both the "From:" box and the "To:" box. Enter different dates in the "From:" and "To:" boxes to search for a date range. Entering a date only in the "From:" box yields results from that date onwards. Entering a date only in the "To:" box yields results up to and including that date.
You may use a shortened form of the YYYY-MM-DD format to search for a year, or for a year and a month. For instance, you could search for images in the year 1905 by typing 1905 in the "From:" and "To:" boxes. To search for images in the year 1905 and the month of May, type 1905-05 in the "From:" and "To:" boxes.

- General Tips

Each image in the collection is displayed with its unique identification number, such as CRA-42-109-919. If you know the ID number of an image, the ID Search is the quickest and most efficient way to retrieve it. You may also enter partial ID numbers into this box.

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