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Using and Citing Images

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Common Image Citations in Chicago Author/Date

Below are some examples of how to cite more commonly-used images.  Image citations will be unique to the exact type of image that you found and where you found it, so you may need to refer to the Chicago Manual of Style or additional online guides like Purdue Owl for a specific example.

Image You Found Online

 

Black and white photograph of a brick mansion in ruins with only a fireplace tower still standing and everything else crumbled

 

Figure 1. The original Yaddo mansion in ruins after a fire, 1891 (New York Public Library). 

 

Reference Entry:

Ruins of the First Yaddo Mansion. 1891. Albumen print, 5 X 7. New York, New York Public Library. 

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/5e66b3e8-a4c3-d471-e040-e00a180654d7

Image You Found in a Book, Article, or Other Source

 

Black and white illustration of a garden terrace with a sundial on a pedestal in the middle

 

Figure 2. Katrina's sun dial, illustrated by Penina Kishore (image scan from Waite's Yaddo: Yesterday and Today, page 41). 

 

Reference Entry:

Waite, Marjorie Peabody. 1933. Yaddo: Yesterday and Today. Albany, NY: Argus Press.

Photograph You Took Yourself

 

The entrance gate to Yaddo's gardens on a summer day with everything in bloom

 

Figure 3. The entrance gate to Yaddo's gardens (photo by Johanna MacKay, July 1, 2023). 

 

Reference Entry:

MacKay, Johanna. 2023. Entrance Gate to Yaddo Gardens. Unpublished photograph. July 1, 2023.