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Photographs

Scope note

Use for still images produced from radiation-sensitive materials (sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation), with the exception of reproductive prints of documents and technical drawings, for which use descriptors found under "<reprographic copies>." Photographs may be positive or negative, opaque or transparent.

This term has 12 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Reproduction type
Object category

Getty AAT term number

300046300

Term used for

photos
pictures

Equivalent Terms used

photograph

Created

13yrs ago

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