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Alternate Format
The Milwaukee
Polonia digital collection is the primary access point for the collection. It
includes all negatives, prints and not matched to negatives, lantern slides, and documents.
A key to the descriptive elements in the metadata follows.
- Field Name
- Description
- Date
- The date on which the photograph was taken or developed. Many of the photographs are
undated; others are dated only to the month and day, but not the year. However, in many
cases the specific year of the image can be ascertained through the job number. See the
Guide for Dating Photographs by
Job Numbers.
- Photographer's Note
- The content of this field is ambiguous. It may refer to the name of either the
customer or subject (name of the individual or group or description of the scene
depicted in the photograph).
- Address
- The value of this element is ambiguous. It may refer to the address of either the
customer or the location depicted in the image. Note: The City of Milwaukee changed
street names and the street numbering system in 1930. The database contains the original
street addresses prior to 1930. Therefore, it is important to check the date of the
image to verify the address. The Milwaukee City
Directories are helpful for verification.
- Subject Term (Local)
- Each image was assigned a topical heading code. See the Guide to Topic Headings
elsewhere in this finding aid.
- Job Number
- Original customer order number assigned by Kwasniewski, sometimes ending with an "A"
or "B." The significance of these last characters is unclear. Archivists assigned
numbers beginning with "A" to unnumbered photographs (e.g.,
A08036).
Additionally, staff frequently added a suffix to job numbers to
indicate the topical heading, or subdivision thereof, to which the photograph was
assigned. This suffix consists of a hyphen followed by a number (e.g., -1). For example,
job number 15913-1 is associated with topical heading 5E1, "Weddings—Bride";
15913-2 with 5E2, "Weddings—Bride and groom"; and 15913-3 with 5E5,
"Weddings—Other." There is no logical relationship between suffixes and topic
heading codes.
The topic heading code does not always indicate a subdivision
when one exists. For example, photographs 31390-1 and 31390-2 are both assigned to topic
heading 5A, "Anniversaries." Photos associated with 31390-1 show couples, while those
associated with 31390-2 show groups. A subdivision is clearly implied by the presence of
a suffix, but in this case is not represented in the topic heading schema.
- Quantity
- The number of negatives associated with a job number.
- Original Item Medium
- The form of the photograph or photographs. Values are: "Safety film negatives,"
"Nitrate negatives," "Glass negatives," "Lantern slides," and "Photographic
prints."
- Original Item Size
- Dimensions of the negatives and slides. Dimensions are not provided for
prints.
- Alternate Format
- Indicates the availability of a photographic print that matches the negative.
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