The ID bar (here highlighted in yellow
on the
photo above for easy recognition) along the top edge of this photo is
typical of many photo identification methods.
The text is broken up into three
separate parts: First, the date field
"2-27-74", stating that this photo was shot on February 2, 1974; next
come the roll and frame numbers, "2 60", meaning the sixtieth photo on
the second roll of film for the given project; and lastly, the code
designating the project for which the pictures were taken, in this
case
"GS-VDJT".
The amount of information and the
method
of its arrangement is not always the same from source to source,
however. There is no
industry standard for the labeling of photography, and how and what
data is put on an identification bar is often decided by either the
company taking the pictures or the company's client. Not every
photo will have the data laid out in the arrangement shown above,
therefore, and not all of this same information will even be listed on
every photo.
This is why it is important to quote to us all of the information
listed on an ID bar when trying to ascertain the availability of a
photo already known to exist.