Newspaper citation of image received from second party who received from third party

By Anonymous on Sun, 10/25/2015 - 15:23

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This is my first time asking a question, though I have followed other questions the past year. I paid for some research at the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center in Rock Island, Illinois. I received some wonderful image copies of newspaper articles/obituaries. I'm trying to now write citations for them.

  • To start, the newspaper is from Galesburg, Illinois called Hemlandet. I have the date and page number but not the complete page, so no column number.
  • The Center used a database of North American Obituaries created by the online archive called EmiWeb (EmiWeb.eu). The Center sent me a printout of that website's entry.

I know I should cite what I have.  What I have is a newspaper article from Hemlandet. But should I also included the role of the Center and of EmiWeb?

My stab at a citation:

First Reference: Hemlandet (Galesburg, Illinois) newspaper clipping, 4 Oct 1882, p. 7, "Dode," obituary listing for Anders Lundqvist; photocopy provided by Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center (Rock Island, IL) from the EmiWeb Swedish-American obituaries database (http://www.emiweb.eu).

Second Reference: Hemlandet, 4 Oct 1882, p. 7, "Dode," obituary listing for Anders Lundqvist.

Bibliography: Hemlandet (Galesburg, Illinois). Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center (Rock Island, IL) from the EmiWeb Swedish-American obituaries database (http://www.emiweb.eu).

Thank you,

Lisa Gorrell

 

Submitted byEEon Sun, 10/25/2015 - 16:13

Lisa, you are right. You should cite what you have. That's a obituary from a newspaper. You've also indicated that someone provided it to you. Given that you have a photocopy of most of the page for authentication, including the identity of the agency that did the search for you—or the tools that they used to locate the obituary—would not be an essential part of the citation. It does no harm to include that data in your working notes and it would likely be helpful to you to capture that data for future refference; but most publishers would not include it and you won't find it in any standard citation manual.  The one citation issue that would make these points relevant is the fact (as you noted) you cannot ascertain the column number from the photocopied image. That could be indicated this way in your citation:

First Reference:  Hemlandet (Galesburg, Illinois), newspaper clipping, 4 October 1882, p. 7, "Dode," obituary listing for Anders Lundqvist; photocopy provided by Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Rock Island, IL, from the EmiWeb Swedish-American obituaries database (http://www.emiweb.eu). without identification of column.

Second Reference: Hemlandet, 4 Oct 1882, p. 7, "Dode," obituary listing for Anders Lundqvist.

Bibliography: Hemlandet. Galesburg, Illinois. Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center. Rock Island, Illinois. IL) from the EmiWeb Swedish-American obituaries database (http://www.emiweb.eu).

You'll also note a couple of other things:

  • The phrase "newspaper clipping" is typically used when we have only a clipping with no indication of the paper. In this, you have an image of the page that fully identifies the paper.
  • I've crossed out the word "listing," from your phrase "obituary listing," because what you are consulting is not just a list of people who died. What we see here is a series of very brief obits.
  • The place name—city and state—for the archive or repository is not placed in parentheses.
  • In a Bibliography or Source List, periods are used to separate each element of the citation. Yes, this point wavers on persnicketiness and rigmarole; but it involves larger issues that do matter, though we need not go into it here because EE covers all that.
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Submitted byLisaGorrellon Thu, 10/29/2015 - 16:22

Another minor question. Since the obituary is in Swedish, should I add "in Swedish" to the citation? I have added to my notes that it is in Swedish and that I created a rough translation using Google Translate for the time being.

First reference note:

Hemlandet (Galesburg, Illinois), 2 Sep 1885, p 5, "Döde," obituary Cajsa Lundquist, in Swedish; photocopy provided by Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, without identification of column.

Thank you.

 

Lisa, flip to EE 2.23 "Citing Titles in Foreign Languages" (books), 3.12 "Foreign-Language Titles & Generic Labels (manuscripts), or 7.16 "Record Books with Foreign Language Titles." There are also examples at 3.31, 6.54, 7.18, 7.41, and the QuickCheck Model at p.659.