The above screenshot is of the UMass Amherst Special Collections and Universal Archives' Tass Sovfoto Photograph Collection. I think the finding aid does a good job of giving details about the photographer as well as the dates and depiction in the images.
The above is a Harvard record and doesn't do a very good job of giving detail on the photographs. This collection level record is for a collection of 500,000 images. "The photographic print file contains approximately 250,000 images, most from ca. 1860-1920. The negative collection includes about 80,000 images, including glass-plate negatives dating back to 1880. Color material includes over 109,000 35 mm. slides, and over 800 4"x5" transparencies of museum objects photographed in the department's studio. Also 6,000 glass lantern slides, 36 daguerreotypes, and 250 hand-colored 19th-century albumen prints of Japan." These images could have at least been separated into their specific genres.
However, I like that both of these records contain extensive subjects for users to select and view more similar subject collections. I think the subjects allow for more direction to and from these photographic archives.
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