So, you just got some great stuff from an archive, and you want to use it, but how do you cite it?
Well there isn't an exact formula, but you can use this as a guideline:
For Ephemera (pamphlets, tickets, menus, posters, etc.):
Muster Sheet for Battalion 8, Company II, Platoon 6 (August-October 1943), V-5 Platoons Muster Sheet folder, Navy V-5 and V-12 Training Unit Records 1942-1945, Special Collections & Archives, Olin Library, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT.
Description of document (date associated with document), folder number or label, box number or label or collection title, archive where the document is housed, location of archive.
For historical images:
Faculty photograph 1870, Faculty Groups (photos) 1863-1875 folder, Vertical Subject Files Collection, Special Collections & Archives, Olin Library, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT.
Description of photo, file number or label, box number or label or collection name, archive name, location of archive.
Historical report or other document:
Report of the Committee of Wesleyan Young Alumni Association of New York on Co-Education as Presented to the Trustees of Wesleyan University January 1900, in Trustee Matters 1899-1900 folder, Coeducation Collection 1867-ca. 1910, Special Collections & Archives, Olin Library, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT.
Title of report, file number or label, box number or label or collection name, archive name, location of archive.
Diary, Memoir, or personal papers:
William North Rice Papers, Diary, volume 1, p. 236, entry for October 24, 1862, Special Collections & Archives, Olin Library, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT.
Title of collection, specific item in collection, archive name, archive location.
The following link also provides more citations for letters, maps, and images.
Well there isn't an exact formula, but you can use this as a guideline:
For Ephemera (pamphlets, tickets, menus, posters, etc.):
Muster Sheet for Battalion 8, Company II, Platoon 6 (August-October 1943), V-5 Platoons Muster Sheet folder, Navy V-5 and V-12 Training Unit Records 1942-1945, Special Collections & Archives, Olin Library, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT.
Description of document (date associated with document), folder number or label, box number or label or collection title, archive where the document is housed, location of archive.
For historical images:
Faculty photograph 1870, Faculty Groups (photos) 1863-1875 folder, Vertical Subject Files Collection, Special Collections & Archives, Olin Library, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT.
Description of photo, file number or label, box number or label or collection name, archive name, location of archive.
Historical report or other document:
Report of the Committee of Wesleyan Young Alumni Association of New York on Co-Education as Presented to the Trustees of Wesleyan University January 1900, in Trustee Matters 1899-1900 folder, Coeducation Collection 1867-ca. 1910, Special Collections & Archives, Olin Library, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT.
Title of report, file number or label, box number or label or collection name, archive name, location of archive.
Diary, Memoir, or personal papers:
William North Rice Papers, Diary, volume 1, p. 236, entry for October 24, 1862, Special Collections & Archives, Olin Library, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT.
Title of collection, specific item in collection, archive name, archive location.
The following link also provides more citations for letters, maps, and images.