The Federal Art Project sponsored most of the posters, others were sponsored by the Federal Music Project, or one of several Federal Theatre Projects established in cities throughout the nation. The name of the institution and division that have custody of the original work. This information can help you locate or cite the original. The title of the collection associates each item with its source and is useful to include in bibliographic citations. Other items lack a formal collection title heading because they are in collections that have not yet been fully cataloged.
Catalogers assign index terms that describe what the image shows as well as what the image is about.
The proper noun headings come from the Library of Congress Name Authority File and from the Library of Congress Subject Headings. Some collections have only preliminary index headings, and do not use standard vocabulary sources like the Thesaurus for Graphic Materials . Terms are sometimes subdivided by place and date of depiction. Getty Art History Information Program, 1995. The Bibliographic Record and Information Technology.