You can search across all collections from the home page search box, or from the search box at the top of every page in the site.
Image: the site search box
The broadest search is to search for Objects and to include full text in your search.
Your search results will include ways to limit your results along the left side. These show you what collections your search found items in, what geographic areas are covered, names that the materials are about, who created the items, what formats the items are and more. You can click on any of these options to limit your search results.
Image: search results for democratic national convention across all collections
If you pick a collection from the Collections page, you'll be able to target your search to that collection.
Image: when you've selected a collection from the collection list, you can target your search to just that collection.
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