I have a funny/sad story about subject headings, though one must have a little French to understand it. Years ago I worked at Time-Life as a photo researcher alongside a wily veteran, whose experience went back to the 1940s. After WWII, she was at an archive in France doing picture research on the war for LIFE. She was looking for photos of wounded soldiers, but couldn't find anything filed under any variation of "soldiers--wounded," "troops--injured," "casualties," etc. Her French was very good, so she was baffled at not being able to figure out the French subject heading system. She asked an archivist how to find pictures of the war wounded, and was told to look under "Misère." HW ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html