Thesaurus terms used in SEAiT
Terms highlighted in blue are new to SEAiT and are part of the Joel M. Halpern Laotian Slide Collection.
| Aerial photographs | Floods | Plazas |
| Agricultural laborers | Flowers | Police |
| Agricultural machinery and implements | Foliage | Pottery |
| Agriculture | Folk dancing | Prisoners of war |
| Airplanes | Food | Rafts |
| Airports | Forts and fortifications | Railroad artillery |
| Alcoholic beverages | Fountains | Railroad bridges |
| Amulets | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Religious services |
| Architectural elements | Furniture | Rice |
| Architecture | Gardens | Rites and ceremonies |
| Arms and armament | Government buildings | Rivers |
| Automobile dealership | Government officials | Roads |
| Bamboo | Graduation ceremonies | Roosters |
| Baptisms | Guerrillas | Ruins |
| Barbering | Handicraft | Rulers |
| Barges | Harbors | Sacrifices |
| Bathing | Hats | Scales |
| Beds | Headgear | School discipline |
| Beggars | Heads of state | School excursions |
| Blacksmithing | Health care | Schools |
| Boats | Hmong | Shamans |
| Bombings | Houses | Stores and shops |
| Bones | Hunters | Signs (Notices) |
| Bridges | Indigenous peoples | Silver |
| Buddhist iconography | Interiors | Smoking |
| Buddhist monks | Jewelry | Social life |
| Buildings | Labor housing | Soldiers |
| Business enterprises | Laborers | Soldiers--United States |
| Calisthenics | Laundry | Spinning |
| Campaigns and battles | Legislators | Sports |
| Canals | Lighthouses | Statues |
| Cannons | Litters | Street railroads |
| Carriages and coaches | Logs | Streets |
| Carts and wagons | Lumber industry | Stringed instruments |
| Cattle | Machine guns | Students |
| Celebrations | Machinery | Sugar cane |
| Cemeteries | Markets | Sugar industry |
| Children | Medical aspects of war | Tanks |
| Children and adults | Mekong River | Tattoos |
| Children playing | Men | Teachers |
| Churches | Meo | Temples |
| City and town life | Miao | Textile industry |
| Closets | Military education | Thatched buildings |
| Clothing and dress | Military facilities | Tobacco |
| Cockfighting | Military headquarters | Tobacco industry |
| Coconuts | Military inspections | Tobacco pipes |
| Coffee | Military life | Towboats |
| Construction | Military officers | Tractors |
| Cookery | Military parades and ceremonies | Transportation |
| Cotton | Military personnel | Trees |
| Country life | Military scouts | Tribal chiefs |
| Couples | Mills | Troop movements |
| Courtship and love | Monuments and memorials | Upper classes |
| Dancing | Mummies | Villages |
| Dead persons | Musical instruments | War |
| Education | Musicians | War casualties |
| Elephants | Narcotics | War damage |
| Embassy buildings | New Year | War destruction and pillage |
| Embroidery | Nobility | War relief |
| Entertainers | Nurses | War work |
| Ethnic groups | Office workers | Warriors |
| Evacuations | Officers' quarters | Wars |
| Fairs | Opium | Water buffaloes |
| Families | Orphans | Water pipes (Smoking) |
| Fathers and children | Parades and processions | Water pumps |
| Festivals | Parties | Waterfronts |
| Fire fighters | Peasants | Weaving |
| Fires | Peddlers | Weddings |
| Fishing | Picnics | Women |
| Flags--United States |





