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• Representation, Symbolic
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• A Book of Symbols for Camp Fire Girls (New York: Camp Fire Outfitting Co., 1915), by Charlotte V. Gulick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Semiotics for Beginners, by Daniel Chandler (frame-dependent illustrated HTML in the UK)
• The American Boys' Book of Signs, Signals and Symbols (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1918), by Daniel Carter Beard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Cross of the Magi: An Unveiling of the Greatest of All the Ancient Mysteries (New York: Roger Bros.; London : L.N. Fowler, 1912), by Frank C. Higgins
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Symbol signs : the development of passenger/pedestrian oriented symbols for use in transportation-related facilities ([Washington, D.C.] : Department of Transportation, Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Consumer Affairs, Office of Facilities, 1974., 1974), by American Institute of Graphic Arts and United States. Transportation Programs Bureau. Office of Facilitation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dizionario illustrato dei simboli; simboli, emblemi, attributi allegorie, immagini degli dei, ecc. (U. Hoepli, 1922), by Giuseppe Ronchetti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A guide to codes and signals; international flag code, secret ciphers, weather signals, Morse code, sign language, etc., with flags of all nations (Whitman publishing company, 1942), by Gordon A. J. Petersen and Marshall McClintock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abbreviations dictionary : abbreviations, contractions, signs & symbols defined; including the Greek alphabet, international civil aircraft markings, numbered abbreviations, proofreader's marks, punctuation and diacritical marks, radio alphabet, Roman numerals, ship's bell time signals, signs and symbols (Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1958), by Ralph De Sola (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anthology of pattern (W. Helburn, 1949), by Natalie Hays Hammond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christianity and symoblism. (Westminster Press, 1955), by F. W. Dillistone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names (Trübner, 1872), by Thomas Inman (page images at HathiTrust)
• American signs and symbols [catalog of an exhibition at the Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts, Taft Museum] December 3 through January 7, 1964. ([Cincinnati?, 1963), by Taft Museum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Planning, design, fabrication, procurement, installation, and maintenance of signs for outdoor public use areas (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, 2002), by United States Bureau of Reclamation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Planning, designing, fabricating, procuring, installing, and maintaining signs for outdoor public use areas (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, 2006), by United States Bureau of Reclamation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diagrammatic guide signs for use on controlled access highways. Volume III. Traffic engineering evaluation of diagrammatic guide signs. Part 3. Synthesis and conclusions. Final report. (1972), by Gretchen Kolsrud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diagrammatic guide signs for use on controlled access highways. Volume III. Traffic engineering evaluation of diagrammatic guide signs. Appendixes A, B, and C to Part 2. Final report. (1972), by J. H. Sanders, M. J. Ganslaw, and Gretchen Kolsrud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Perceptual factors and meanings of symbolic information elements. Volume I, executive summary. (1977), by King M. Roberts, Ernest W. Lareau, and Daniel Welch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Perceptual factors and meanings of symbolic information elements. Volume II, technical report. (1977), by King M. Roberts, Ernest W. Lareau, and Daniel Welch (page images at HathiTrust)
• ""Star of Life" - emergency medical care symbol: background, specifications, and criteria. (1979) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Symbol signs 2. The development of passenger/pedestrian oriented symbols for use in transportation-related facilities. Final report. (Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1979) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emergency Medical Services - highway sign evaluation. Final report. (1980), by M. J. Smith and Anita S. Ware (page images at HathiTrust)
• Age effects on symbol sign recognition. Final report. (1980), by R. Wade Allen, Zareh Parseghian, and P. G. Van Valkenburgh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alternative sign sequences for work zones on rural highways. Executive summary. Final report. (1981), by R. W. Lyles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Symbolic sign for oversized-truck route signs. Final report. (1984), by J. Walker, Elizabeth Alicandri, and K. Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• An evaluation of candidate symbolic routing signs for trucks carrying hazardous cargo. Final report. (1985), by J. Walker, Elizabeth Alicandri, and K. Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Motorists' comprehension of regulatory, warning, and symbol signs. Volume I: executive summary. Final report. (1987), by Richard L. Knoblauch and Martin Pietrucha (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ramp signing for trucks. Final report. (1993), by Richard L. Knoblauch and Marsha Nitzburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recommendations to improve driver education on traffic control devices. (1999), by Dale L. Picha, Garry L. Ford, and Angelia H. Parham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Driver behavior characteristics of teenage drivers and older drivers. (1999), by Angelia H. Parham and Garry L. Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• In-vehicle display icons and other information elements: literature review. (Federal Highway Administration, McLean, Va., 1998), by Cher Carney, John L. Campbell, and Elizabeth A. Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Updating educational materials on traffic control devices. (2000), by Angelia H. Parham, Garry L. Ford, and S. Renee Hulett (page images at HathiTrust)
• General development process for in-vehicle icons. (2003) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [In-vehicle display icons and other information elements: volume 1: guidelines] (2004), by John L. Campbell, J. B. Richman, Cher Carney, and J. D. Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origins of Pictish symbolism : with notes on the sun boar and a new reading of the Newton inscriptions (D. Douglas, 1893), by James Carnegie Southesk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principes généraux de la symbolique des religions (Librairie Fischbacher, 1915), by Georges Lanoë-Villène (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Interpretive design. (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Region, 1982), by United States. Forest Service. Intermountain Region (page images at HathiTrust)
• Style manual (The Zoo, 1977), by Minnesota Zoological Garden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Steincultus in der Schweiz. Sprachlich, mythologisch und historisch. ([Aarau, 1864), by Ernst Ludwig Rochholz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Signs of life; a pictorial dictionary of symbols. (A. Sivas, 1957), by Harry M. Raphaelian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Decas fabularum : humani generis sortem, mores, ingenium, varia studia, inventa atq. ... (sumptibus Lazari Zetzneri, 1609), by Joannes Walch and Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Herz des Menschen : ein Tempel Gottes oder eine Werkstätte des Satans. (Gustav S. Peters, 1831), by Johannes Gossner and Philipp Friedrich Pöschel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des signes envisagés relativement a leur influence sur la formation des idées. (Baudouin, Imp. de l'Institut national, 1800), by Pierre Prevost (page images at HathiTrust)
• El sello de Salomón (un regalo de los dises) (Impr. y Litografía de J. Palacios, 1907), by Rafael Urbano (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origins of Pictish symbolism : with notes on the sun boar and a new reading of the Newton inscriptions (Llanerch, 1999), by James Carnegie Southesk (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Antiquarische Streifzüge. (Waisenhaus, 1868), by Arnold Steudener (page images at HathiTrust)
• Electorum symbolorum & parabolarum historicarum syntagmata (Apud Ioannem Kinckium, 1631), by Nicolas Caussin and Horapollo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speculum imaginum veritatis occultæ : exhibens symbola, emblemata, hieroglyphica, ænigmata, omnitam materiæ, quam formæ varietate; exemplis simul, ac præceptis illustratum (Sumptibus viduæ, & hæredum Joannis Antonii Kinchii, 1681), by Jakob Masen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophia imaginum id est sylloge symbolorum amplissima (Prostant apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1695), by Claude-François Menestrier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art d s'écrire en secret absolu avec les chiffres (Chez Tous les Libraires, 1900), by Emile Delage and George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les écritures secrètes dévoilés : études et problèms cryptographiques (E. Dentu, 1874), by Charles Joliet and George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Écritures secrètes (J. Arnous de Rivière, 1881), by Edme Simonot and George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Symbola heroica m. Claudii Paradini, Belliiocensis canonici, et d. Gabrielis Symeonis (Ex officina Plantiniana, apud Christophorvm Raphelengivm ..., 1600), by Claude Paradin, Joannes Gubernator, and Gabriele Simeoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Istorii͡a chervonoho prapora (Nakladom Robochoho naroda, 1917), by George B. Benham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chiffres usités en temps double clef (Librairie militaire de L. Baudoin et Cie, 1883), by Aug. Kerckhoffs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Det saakaldte hagekors's anvendelse og betydning i oldtiden. Avec un résumé français. (B. Lunos bogtrykkeri, 1877), by Ludvig Müller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ta ki, the svastika, and the cross in America (Press of MacCalla & Co., 1889), by Daniel G. Brinton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Revised and improved edition of the telegraphic cipher code : especially adapted to the cotton trade (Shepperson Pub., 1920), by Alfred B. Shepperson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Templar's chart (Published and sold by the author, 1821), by Jeremy L. Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anleitung zu der Darstellung in allegorischen Bildern (Leipzig : Magazin für Industrie und Literatur, 1834., 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
• My mother's gentle,gentle prayer she taught me when a simple boy (Lee & Walker, 1869), by J. L. Woolsey and Wm. C. Grover (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité de cryptographie (Librairie Félix Alcan, 1925), by André Lange and E. A. Soudart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Specifications for world aeronautical charts scale 1:1,000,000 code WAC. (Washington, D.C. : Army Air Forces, Aeronautical Chart Service, [1946], 1946), by United States. Aeronautical Chart and Information Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comparison of four methods of encoding elevation information with complex line-inclination symbols (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : Wright Air Development Center, Air Research and Development Command, United States Air Force, 1956., 1956), by David B. Learner, Earl A. Allusi, United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command, Wright Air Development Center, and Ohio State University. Research Foundation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Standardization of symbols and units for environmental research (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories, Aerospace Medical Division, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, 1966., 1966), by W. C. Kaufman and Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Symbols : a language arts introduction to mathematics and science (Washington University, 1960), by Alexander Calandra (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Philosophie occulte ... (G. Ballière, 1862), by Eliphas Lévi (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Cryptographie, ou, l'art d'écrire en chiffres (in French), by P. L. Jacob (Gutenberg ebook)

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