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NEAR 5, NEAR 10, and NEAR 25 get terms within that many words of each other. These are found in the dropdown menus on the Advanced Search page.Proximity tends to increase relationship. Punctuation is ignored in determining proximity.

Advanced Search box showing proximity word choice

You may choose to search in the caption field of illustrations: put the search term in a search box, and choose caption from the dropdown menu at the end of the box.

JSTOR advanced search option caption for searching image captions