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Image (Photograph, Drawing, or Print)--Creator Known)
General Format:
Creator’s last name, first name, middle initial (Photographer or Artist). (Date of Image). Title of Image [Medium, such as Photograph, Drawing, or Print]. City, Accession Number of Item, Title of Collection, Owning Institution. Retrieved (month day, year,) from Web Resource [Detailed image information, such as Photo CD Number and File Name] on the World Wide Web: Web Address.

CHO Example:
DeLamater, R. S. (Photographer). (1866). Encampment in City Park (now Bushnell Park), Hartford [Photograph]. Hartford, Accession Number X.1991.14.0, Graphics Collection, Connecticut Historical Society. Retrieved May 8, 2001, from Connecticut History Online [Photo CD number 0541 and file img0086.pcd] on the World Wide Web: ../../search.phpcgi-bin/scandoc.cgi? app=22&folder =1431&doc=1.

Image (Photograph, Drawing, or Print)--Creator Unknown)
General Format:
Title of Image [Medium, such as Photograph, Drawing, or Print]. (Date of Image). City, Accession Number of Item, Title of Collection, Owning Institution. Retrieved (month day, year,) from Web Resource [Detailed image information, such as Photo CD Number and File Name] on the World Wide Web: Web Address.

CHO Example:
Isabel Grinnell of Mystic looking at a cat [Photograph]. (ca.1910). Mystic, Accession Number 1993.136.171, Grinnell Collection, Mystic Seaport. Retrieved May 14, 2001, from Connecticut History Online [Photo CD number 4202 and file img0017.pcd] on the World Wide Web: ../../search.phpcgi-bin/ scandoc.cgi?app=20&folder=495&doc=1.

Text, Photo Essay, or Lesson Plan
General Format:
Author’s last name, first name, middle initial (if known). (Date). Title of text, photo essay, or lesson plan. Retrieved (month day, year,) from Web Resource on the World Wide Web: Web Address.

CHO Example:
Flynn, Patrick W. (2000, October). Lesson Plan: Understanding the Similarities and Differences of Two Connecticut Families. Retrieved May 8, 2001, from Connecticut History Online on the World Wide Web: http://www.lib.uconn.edu/cho /Education/twofamilies/lesson1.htm>.

Website
General Format:
APA Guidelines do not recommend including an entire website within a bibliography. Instead, authors need only to provide the web address of the site in the main body of the text, surrounded by parentheses.

CHO Example:
Connecticut History Online is a rich online resource for students, teachers, and historians, and includes information and images about Connecticut’s past (http://www.lib.uconn.edu/cho).

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