• Basic: Used to search a word or phrase. You will need to choose whether your search should include all the terms in the search box or any of them. You may specify what part of the record you'd like searched.
• For information about using connectors, and and or, see the help screen AND/OR/NOT.
• For information about the searchable fields in the database, see the searchable fields help screen.
• Precision: Use to search multiple areas of the descriptions at once. For example, specify where in an image's description a certain word or phrase appears using connectors. For example, one could search for images related to cotton in Dublin, Georgia by searching for the keyword "cotton" and "Dublin" in the city field.
  • For information about using connectors, and, or, and not, see the help screen AND/OR/NOT.
  • For information about the searchable fields in the database, see the searchable fields help screen.

The precision search also permits limiting results in the following ways:

by City: To limit your search to images associated with a specific city, enter the appropriate term in the corresponding search box.

by County: To limit your search to images associated with a specific county, enter the appropriate term in the corresponding search box.

by Date: To limit your search to documents created within a specific date range, replace the dates shown with the desired ones. To limit by a single year, put it in both boxes. If the default values are not changed, all of the documents will be searched.

by Type: To limit your search to a specific type of original image, select the appropriate checkbox. Image types include photograph, painting, engraving, etching, lithograph, drawing, daguerrotype, ambrotype, tintype, stereograph, and postcard. The majority of the images found in the database fall into the photograph category.

Keyword: Locates records which include your search terms in the title, description, city, county, and subject fields of the image description.

Subject: Locates records which include your search terms among the individuals, corporate bodies, geographic areas, or the topics that the image treats. For the project a limited number of subjects have been assigned. To see a list of the available subjects, please browse the subject indices.

City: Locates records containing your search terms in the city field. For images associated with areas outside a city, the name of the closest city or town is recorded in this field.

County: Locates records for images associated with the county that matches your search term.

Date: Locates records which include your search terms in the date area of the record. Bear in mind that these dates are often approximate. For the purposes of the database, the following date ranges have been associated with inexact dates.

Mid decade (e.g. mid 1930s) Early decade (e.g. early 1930s)Late decade (e.g. late 1930s)Early century (e.g. early 1800s)Mid century (e.g. mid 1800s)Late century (e.g. late 1800s)

Decades (e.g. 1930s)	1930-1939
1934-1936
1930-1933
1937-1939
1800-1839
1840-1869
1870-1899

Description: Locates records which include your search terms in the narrative description of the image. The description is based upon information gathered during the interviews conducted by Georgia Department of Archives and History staff while acquiring the images. The staff has verified and supplemented the descriptions when possible.

Image number: Locates records which include your search terms in the locally assigned image number. The identification numbers indicate in which county Georgia Department of Archives and History staff received an image and are not chronological.

Image type: Locates records for images whose original format matches your search terms. Image types include photograph, painting, engraving, etching, lithograph, drawing, daguerrotype, ambrotype, tintype, stereograph, and postcard. The majority of the images found in the database fall into the photograph category.

Photographer: Locates images whose creator, either an individual or studio, matches your search terms. The photographer or artist is unknown for many of the images. Limited authority control has been performed on the entries in this field.

Title: Locates records which include your search terms in the title field. The title is either a caption printed on the image or is one supplied during cataloging. Titles created for the project include a brief description including the city, county and date if known.

When searching, you have two options for displaying your results:

• Image list: Displays a list of counties and image titles or captions. By clicking on the title, you will retrieve a description of the image with a thumbnail version of it.
• Contact sheet: Displays thumbnails of images matching your search criteria with their counties and titles listed below. You have the option of displaying either three or five thumbnails per row of results. By clicking on the thumbnail, you will retrieve a larger version of the image. If you click on the title, you will retrieve a description of the image and a thumbnail.