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Conduct a full text search of the information accompanying the photographs.

AND/OR/NOT

Boolean searching will produce relevant results based on the Boolean operator:
e.g. eat and fish will return only those records containing both the words eat and fish; eat or fish will return those records containing either eat or fish or both terms; eat not fish will return only those records containing eat that do not also contain fish

Order of Operations

Order of operations is from left to right or based on parentheses:
e.g. lady and quilting or old will retrieve different results from quilting or old and lady
e.g. lady and (quilting or old) will retrieve the same results as quilting or old and lady

Exact Phrase

More than one term typed in the search field without Boolean operators will be interpreted as an Exact Phrase search; all words entered will be searched exactly as they are entered (spelling and order). Double-quotes ("") can be used for an Exact Phrase search and should be used if the phrase contains the words and, or, or not.

Truncation

Broaden your search by using an asterisk (*):
e.g. eat* will find eating, Eaton...