diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/filestorage/FileModelHelper.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/filestorage/FileModelHelper.java
index e0e31ea03..ce3d427e0 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/filestorage/FileModelHelper.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/filestorage/FileModelHelper.java
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ public class FileModelHelper {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Store this file surrogate as the thumnail on this entity.
+	 * Store this file surrogate as the thumbnail on this entity.
 	 */
 	public void setThumbnailOnIndividual(Individual entity,
 			Individual thumbnailSurrogate) {
diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/filestorage/updater/NonLiteralPropertyRemover.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/filestorage/updater/NonLiteralPropertyRemover.java
index 2c9222fef..0792b452f 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/filestorage/updater/NonLiteralPropertyRemover.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/filestorage/updater/NonLiteralPropertyRemover.java
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ public class NonLiteralPropertyRemover extends FsuScanner {
 				+ "are not literals.");
 
 		removeNonLiterals(imageProperty, "image file");
-		removeNonLiterals(thumbProperty, "thumnail");
+		removeNonLiterals(thumbProperty, "thumbnail");
 	}
 
 	/**