Thesaurus

Go to search.iisg.nl. To search for image and sound materials check 'Visual documents' or follow the link 'Advanced search' under Visual documents.
You can make use of the list of terms and the list of geocodes.
Try one of these searches:

1. Search

Enter a specific word or a combination of words.
Results can be further restricted by adding a materialcode, for example search for 'poster Amnesty International' or 'drawing Marx'

2. Subject search

Enter for example: textile industry, poster, strikes or a combination of words.
See the list of used terms.

3. Searching persons or corporate names

Enter the name of an artist, designer or photographer, or the name of a person or organisation shown on a picture.

4. Searching campaigns, commemorations or other manifestations

Enter the word ‘campaign' plus country, for example actie Nicaragua or campaign on Vietnam; herdenking Februaristaking or Commemoration of the Spanish Civil War; May 1 or International Women's Day. The Dutch campaigns are in Dutch, those in other countries in English.

5. Searching year or period

Enter a year or period
XX         = 20th century
XX-2      = 2nd quarter of the 20th century
1930     = only 1930
193*     = 1930s

6. Searching geographical region

You may find geographical regions under various names, depending on the period and the political structure. Contemporary names of countries are in English, local names in the local language (as in the Times Atlas)

Every geographical name has also a geographical code. The codes don't change (they are independent from time or politics), the real geographical names can vary. You'll find Rhodesia next to Zimbabwe, but in both cases the geographical code is SAF. Everything on South-America you'll find under the code ‘SAM', pictures on Brazil, only under ‘Brazil'. This thesaurus also contains a list of countries and geocodes.
For campaigns against or in support of a country, see Searching campaigns.

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