Preferred label

Manipulation                

Alternative label

Scope note

A deliberate physical alteration to a substrate or other artifact. Manipulations might be made to a substrate during the writing process (writing manipulation), to turn a substrate into a letterpacket (letterlocking manipulation), to facilitate a letter’s transit (postal manipulation), to file or display a document (storage manipulation), or to stabilize or fix an artifact (repair manipulation).         

Parent concept

Material feature         

uh-linked-data/concept/332        

Related concept                                                     

Physical evidence       

uh-linked-data/concept/376

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/327