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HIST 116: Intro to Indigenous Histories, 1887-present

Prof. Meredith McCoy, Spring 2025

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Course website & Citation examples

Yes, you're going to notice that these are not internally consistent. Citation is an art, not a science! Take the parts that work for your image! Put the Caption (TASL style) under the image. Put the full Chicago citation in the bibliography at the end.

 

3 Caption examples (TASL style)

  1. Betsy sits on a chair, looking at the camera. Image source: Lmaotru, Elizabeth 'Betsy' Brown Stephens, 2010; original photograph taken in 1903. Accessed via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stephens.jpg. Public domain.
  • Generally, italicize titles.
  • This photo was originally taken in 1903 and digitized in 2010; if you have a modern image, leave off the second date part.
  • "Public Domain" is the equivalent of the license. You might have a Creative Commons license that looks like: CC BY 4.0, or CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, or similar. Include it after the link to the original image.
  1. Dr. Eastman wears a suit and tie. Image source: Portrait of Dr. Charles A. Eastman, 2020, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr_Charles_A_Eastman.jpg. Public domain. Originally published in The American Indian Magazine 6, no. 4 (1919): cover art, http://archive.org/details/DKC0238.
  • This image has no known photographer/creator
  • This image was originally printed in a physical journal, and then it was scanned and uploaded into Wikimedia Commons
  1. Photograph shows lawyer Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin (1863-1952), a Chippewa Indian who was the first Native American to graduate from the Washington College of Law in 1914. Image source: Bain News Service, Mrs. Marie L. Baldwin, 1914, George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. Accessed via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mrs._Marie_L._Baldwin_(LOC)_2.jpg. Public domain.
  • This photo was originally in a Library of Congress archive, and contains all that information in the citation
  • The citation also has the link to Wikimedia Commons, since that contains the copyright/Public Domain information, which will help to make Prof. McCoy life's easier!

 

3 Bibliography examples (Chicago Manual of Style)

  1. Lmaotru. Elizabeth 'Betsy' Brown Stephens. 2010; original photograph taken in 1903. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stephens.jpg.
  2. Portrait of Dr. Charles A. Eastman. 2020. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr_Charles_A_Eastman.jpg. Originally published in The American Indian Magazine 6, no. 4 (1919). http://archive.org/details/DKC0238.
  3. Bain News Service. Mrs. Marie L. Baldwin. 1914. George Grantham Bain Collection. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mrs._Marie_L._Baldwin_(LOC)_2.jpg. 

**What changed?

  • Commas became periods
  • (if your author had a First Last name, you would invert them to be Last, First: Flanagan, Peggy)
  • No license information needed in the bibliography
  • **Note that these examples are not in alphabetical order, but in your bibliography they generally should be

Captioning Creative Commons Media (TASL)

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