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Symbols.com
URL: http://www.symbols.com/

Description:
Over "2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics." Symbols include some carved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men, hobo signs, scientific, medical, mythological and religious symbols, and subway graffiti. Searchable by graphic arrangement or browsable by word definition. Based on Carl G. Liungman's 1995 book, "Thought Signs: The semiotics of Symbols--Western Non-pictorial Ideograms."

Author:
Liungman, Carl G.

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Signs and symbols

LII Database Information:
Record 13003 created by Dana Evans on 05/15/1998
Last modification on 05/25/2004
Published: 05/15/1998  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/13003