Begin with names, date and place

The South Asian Canadian Digital Archive catalogues a wedding photograph of Surjit Singh Tatla and Charanjit Kaur Tatla as made in 1974. Its description places them standing with guests in the background at Mullanpur, Charanjit’s village in Punjab. The item is recorded as one black-and-white photograph, reference 2022_16_47_008, within the Surjit Singh Tatla collection. These details establish a particular family occasion rather than a generic illustration of a Punjabi wedding. Cite the item identifier alongside the catalogue’s names, year and place. The description does not identify every background guest or supply the photographer’s name. Those gaps remain even when the principal couple and occasion are known.[1]

Retain unidentified people

Another SACDA record, 2022_16_43_023, names Sukhwinder Bolla but describes the bride as unidentified. It places the picture after the marriage ceremony and describes formal clothing, a red salwar kameez and wedding guests behind the couple. The item is catalogued as a colour photograph; the displayed record supplies no creation date. These are useful descriptive details, but they do not recover the bride’s name or establish a year. The item sits within the archive’s Sukhwinder Bolla collection. An archive entry can preserve someone’s presence while still lacking an identification. A research note should retain that uncertainty rather than infer a name from the named groom or copy a date from another picture in the collection.[2]

Compare what the records establish

The two records support different levels of identification. One supplies a named couple, year and village; the other leaves a participant and date unresolved. Clothing descriptions add information without resolving those gaps. Compare the records field by field, retaining the source of each identification. Neither description establishes the full ceremony, the guests’ relationships or a rule followed by every Punjabi family.[1][2]

Sources & notes

Source records include access dates and, where known, limits on what was examined. Checks used AI assistance; independent human or specialist review has not been completed.

  1. South Asian Canadian Digital Archive, University of the Fraser Valley / South Asian Studies Institute. Surjit Singh Tatla and Charanjit Kaur Tatla on their wedding day, 2022_16_47_008 ↗primary institutional photograph catalogue · Source date: Object date field 1974; catalogue publication not established · Locator: Actual full browser record: Details / Date Created and Description; Extent; References / Member of and accessIdentifier. Accessed 2026-11-02.Web-reader request returned a cache miss; the actual full record loaded normally and was read in the browser. Catalogue descriptions are attributed rather than presented as this site’s image analysis. No image was downloaded, republished or independently dated. The photographer is not named in the inspected fields. Related Tatla wedding captions, collection delivery and taxonomy mirrors share one conservative selected-event family.Return to Begin with names, date and place, paragraph 1 ↑Return to Compare what the records establish, paragraph 1 ↑
  2. South Asian Canadian Digital Archive, University of the Fraser Valley / South Asian Studies Institute. Sukhwinder Bolla and an unidentified bride on their wedding day, 2022_16_43_023 ↗primary institutional photograph catalogue · Source date: Creation date not supplied in inspected record; catalogue publication not established · Locator: Actual full browser record: title and complete Description; Extent; References / accessIdentifier; absence of a displayed Date Created field. Accessed 2026-11-02.Web-reader request returned a cache miss; the complete actual record loaded normally in the browser. The bride remains unidentified and no date is invented. Catalogue clothing descriptions are not an independent visual examination or evidence of caste, wealth or personal religious belief. Related Bolla wedding captions and taxonomy/fonds aliases share one conservative selected-event family. The displayed rights field is In copyright; no image is reproduced.Return to Retain unidentified people, paragraph 1 ↑Return to Compare what the records establish, paragraph 1 ↑
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Record PH-COL-0077 · English edition · human review not performed