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Being a Good (Digital) Citizen - Citing Images

Want to use images you found online in a presentation or paper? You’ll need to cite them.

Duck Shooting (ArtStor)

Image of a record in ArtStor database showing a painting of a duck hunter and then the metadata used for the image

Castro Street (SFPL, through Calisphere)

Example of what a record looks like. Photo Id# AAB-3265; Title: [Castro Street] [graphic]; Date: 1941, Apr. 3?; Description: Folder: S.F. Streets - Castro - 1940s-1950s, Reproduction rights: permission to use this image must be obtained from the SF History Center, San Francisco Public Library : www.sfpl.org/permissions; Notes: written on back: "Last day of Castro car operation"; Copy Negative: Negative #4484; Subject: Streets - Castro - 1940s-1950s, San Francisco (Calif) -- Photographs, Series: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection

Maui Sunset (Flickr)

Decorative: example image of how the info might look for another record