You've finally found that elusive photograph or manuscript or thingamagig for your research project in Special Collections.  Woot!  But wait -- how do you cite a photograph or a news clipping in your bibliography?  If you've scoured the Chicago Manual of Style or some of style sheet only to find that nothing seems to fit this primary source item, you're not alone.

Remember that a well cited source contains all the necessary pieces of information for anyone to relocate your finding.  If you work from the smallest piece of information to the largest, you'll be able to craft a thorough citation.  Think about the information found in more traditional cited material:  Author, Title, Publisher, Location, Date.   For archival material, you would use a similar structure of Title, Creator, Date, Folder, Collection, Repository.

For example, let's say that you decided to use this photograph from the "poultry" folder of photographs and had the metadata (i.e., cataloged information about the photograph) for the image (original can be found, along with metadata, on Cleveland Memory at http://images.ulib.csuohio.edu/cdm/ref/collection/urbanfarm/id/342 ):

Using the metadata above, the photograph citation would look like this:

"Hens playing bridge at the Seventh World's Poultry Congress and Exposition held in Cleveland, Ohio, August, 1939." Unknown Photographer, 1939. Poultry Photograph Folder, Cleveland Press Collection.  Special Collections, Michael Schwartz Library, Cleveland State University.

Keep in mind that your professor might have a different format to use for citations, so always be sure to check prior to submitting your final project.