Cataloger's Reference Shelf
Graphic Materials - Rules for Describing Original Items and Historical
Collections
5: Single Published Item without Known Individual Creator (Sample Descriptions in the 1982 Edition)
Brooklyn base ball team, 1899. -- [New York] : Gardner & Co., c1899.
1 photographic print on printed mount : sepia toned ; image 42 x 54 cm., on mount 50 x 59 cm.
Subject: Studio portrait of New York baseball team. Printed identifications on mount: manager McGunnigle, players Smith, Pinckney, Corkhill, Caruthers, Terry, Collings, Foutz, Hughes, O’Brien, Bushong, Clark, Visner, Lovett.
Copyright deposit.
Brooklyn base ball team, 1899: The title, which includes a date, is transcribed as it appears on the item (1A3).
printed mount: The secondary support is described because of the printing on it and the information it includes (3B6.4).
image: Because there is a large difference between the image and mount sizes, dimensions are given for both (3D3.6).
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