Library of Congress Thesauri
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Legislative Indexing Vocabulary (LIV)
A thesaurus developed by the Congressional Research Service for use with legislative and public policy material.
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre and Physical Characteristic Terms (TGM II)
The Thesaurus for Graphic Materials is a tool for indexing visual materials by subject and genre/format. The thesaurus includes mort than 7,000 subject terms to index topics shown or reflected in pictures, and 650 genre/format terms to index types of photographs, prints, design drawings, ephemera and other catagories. New terms are added regularly. TGM is searchable through the [Prints & Photographs Online Catalog]. TGM is no longer maintained in Lexico as of 2007 (click on link to go to new site) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/tgmiquery.html

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These thesauri are maintained using Lexico software © 1997-2001 Project Management, Inc. +1-301-652-5306.
Lexico written by Steven Friedman of PMEI.

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