Example 28: Lantern slide collection
Teaching collections may have a different informational viewpoint than that of archival collections. Here a decision was made to make a Collection record describing an historic French lantern slide collection of architecture images; all the items may be then related [relation Image] to this Collection record for presentation and searching in a delivery system. However, each lantern slide view may be attached to a building Work record; the lantern itself as an Image surrogate of that building. See Example 29 for an instance when the lantern view (the photograph) is cataloged as a Work.

Example 29: Topographic view
This example shows how any general photograph of a panorama, city skyline, or topographic landscape view may be cataloged—as a photograph, with the photographer as the agent. This would be a recommended approach if no single building or other work is dominant in the view. AAT defines topographical views “…as pictorial or photographic representations that faithfully (though not necessarily with total accuracy) depict actual locations. May be ‘landscapes (representations),’ ‘cityscapes (visual works),’ or ‘townscapes (representations),’ though those terms tend to imply invention whereas ‘topographical views’ implies recording of appearances.”

Example 36: Event photo in archives
This historic event photograph records the annual Vassar Commencement tradition of the Daisy Chain and clothing worn by an honorary “Daisy”; donated by the alumnae, along with a donation letter (Example 35) and the dress in the photograph (Example 34), illustrating relationships between archival material and artifacts.