Preferred label

Letterlocking category(concepts?)        

Alternative label

Categories; Category; LC        

Scope note

A classification system for opened letters defined by the presence of physical manipulations (fold/roll, slit/hole, tuck, adhesive, and lock) used to transform a writing substrate into a letterpacket. Category is used to assign security score to a letterpacket.        

Parent concept

Letterlocking (process)        

uh-linked-data/concept/1        

Related concept 

Letterlocking format        

uh-linked-data/concept/295

The Arts & Architecture ThesaurusⓇ Online, The Getty Research Institute. Concept uri

Not in AAT       

The Language of Bindings Thesaurus (LoB) Concept uri

Not in LoB

Scope note source reference

Source

Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith, and the Unlocking History Research Group. Letterlocking, The Hidden History of the Letter. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2025.

Unlocking History Concept uri

uh-linked-data/concept/225