Image citation question

Question

The other day I found a website with lots of scans of old negatives from a professional studio photographer. I have contacted the website creator who is a descendant of the original photographer and have permission to repost some scans to the relevant profiles here - the question now is how to label/cite the images.

A little more background:

As I understand it, the negatives themselves are (mostly) not labeled or dated. The boxes they are stored in are labeled with just a month and year. As the scanning was done each negative was assigned a file number using the date on the box, to which was added a box number (created because some months had more than one box and not part of the 'original' filing system), and a negative number (which was simply the sequence in which the negatives were found stored within the box).

The identification of the photo subjects has been done primarily by the person who did the scanning - comparing the people in the images with other labeled sources (such as postcards, family photo albums, calendars, and commemorative books from the church and the community) - the remainder of identifications and/or corrections have been made by friends and family or by visitors to his website who are close family of the depicted subjects.

Using this image as an example [link] my thought on what should be added as a comment to the image page is something along the lines of:

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Subjects: Cor van Velzen; Unknown Ton; Unknown; Artha Ton

Gerrit van der Wal, photographer, untitled studio portrait of four young women, glass plate negative (Herwijnen, Gelderland: c. August 1916); Source: George Fockert, "1916_aug_01_16", c. 2002, digital image. From: http://gfockert.home.xs4all.nl (accessed 12 Aug 2015). Identification of photograph subjects by research of G. Fockert, et al.

"1916_aug_01_16" reproduced with permission.

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Thoughts?

Answer 1

Great question Rob!

I believe a boilerplate such as "Photo posted with gratitude to and permission of whom gave you the permission and how they may be located" (if need arises) would go into the source box that will be seen in a comment box by anyone whom clicks on the photo.  The Title will vary from Unknown to Name (and if applicable) or best guess.  The Date of the photo or circa.  The Place if known.  Perhaps, any additional information such as initially coded by studio assistants as Alpha Number of Special Collection of Family... could be elaborated upon in the bio section of the profile.  

As the photo could be potentially attached to multiple profiles, I believe the same gracious attribution needs to be closely tied.  The relevance to a profile may vary and be explained in a each different bio text. Defining the co-operation with Section 107 of the US Copyright Act of 1976 would be my priority.