Preferred label

Working model                

Alternative label

Scope note

A model made to understand how a historic letter worked, using information transferred from an observational model rather than in the presence of the original. Working models are folded, sealed, and re-opened, and multiple working models are usually made in a process of conjecture, review, and improvement.        

Parent concept

Model        

uh-linked-data/concept/338        

Related concept   

Simulacrum        

uh-linked-data/concept/484

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/587