Preferred label
Transparencies
Alternative label
Phototransparencies
Broader term
Pictures
Narrower terms
Film transparencies
Glass transparencies
Slides
Tissue stereographs
Related terms
Hold-to-light works
Photographs
Scope note
Sheets of transparent material, such as glass, thin paper, or plastic, bearing a photographic, printed, or hand-drawn image and designed to be viewed by light shining through them; often intended for use with a projection device.
History note
Changed 11/90. Formerly, some TRANSPARENCIES may have been indexed as PHOTOTRANSPARENCIES.
Change note
Formerly TGMI term & TGMII term.