How to search the Kitchin collection

Categories

If you would like to browse through the Kitchin photographs according to a broad theme, then the categories search facility is for you!

All you need to do is select one or more categories according to your interest and click on search.

If you select ALL the categories you will get all of the images in the database back as your search result.

Street/Area

The Street/Area field should be used if you are interested in a particular road, street or place in Peterborough. You need to type in the name of the location (i.e. Bridge Street) and then click on search. The form also gives you the option of searching for a combination of two different street/areas.

If you would like to view the street/area index to help you see what places can be searched for, click on the question mark symbol.

Organisations

This search field is useful if you are interested in finding pictures of a local company, business, shop, church, public house or school. Enter your search term (i.e. All Saints Catholic Church) and click on search. The form also gives you the option of searching for a combination of two different organisations.

If you would like to view the organisations index to help you see what can be searched for, click on the question mark symbol.

Keywords

You can also try entering a term in the keywords field. This could be a street, organisation or a subject. Unlike the other fields, the keywords are not related to a pre-defined index. Instead your term is matched against the photograph titles and photograph descriptions. The form also gives you the option of searching for a combination of two different keywords.

Example subject keywords are: churches, public houses, swimming pools, tobacconists and theatres.

Using the and/or facility

When you want to combine two search terms of the same type (i.e. two street/areas or two organisations) you need to bear in mind that the search facility automatically defaults to conduct an 'and' type of search. You may choose to change this to an 'or' type of search.

AND searches

If you have input Midgate and Long Causeway in the street/area fields as an 'and' type of search then you will retrieve the 6 photographs that relate to BOTH streets. You will NOT retrieve photographs that relate only to Midgate or only to Long Causeway.

OR searches

If you have inputted Midgate and Long Causeway in the street/area fields as an 'or' type of search then you will retrieve the 41 photographs that relate to EITHER street. You will retrieve photographs that relate only to Midgate, photographs that relate only to Long Causeway and photographs that relate to both.

Combination searches

You can refine your searches by combining different parts of the search form. Two examples of this are given below:

Example 1

If you wanted to look for photographs relating to shops and businesses in Bridge Street, you could select commerce from the list of categories and enter Bridge Street in the street/area field.

Example 2

If you wanted to search for tobacconists in either Midgate or Cowgate, you could enter the two roads in the separate street/area fields (remembering to make sure the 'or' button is checked), then enter tobacconists in the keywords field.

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