Here's my guess...
This finding aid is definitely confusing! The first two lines:

Ff b.1-3,5 Scene Renderings --- 4 Watercolors.
Framed b.4 --- 1 Watercolor.

I suppose this means that cabinet "Ff" contains folders "b.1-3,5" and ALSO
contains folder "b.4" which contains a frame which contains "1 Watercolor."
 With that logic in mind, I think I'd go about it this way:

<C02><DID><UNITTITLE>The Miracle</UNITTITLE> etc...

<C03><DID><UNITLOC LOCTYPE="CONTAINER"
CONTAINERTYPE="OVERSIZE-CABINET">Ff</UNITLOC>
<UNITLOC LOCTYPE="CONTAINER" CONTAINERTYPE="FOLDER">b.1-3,5</UNITLOC>
<UNITTITLE>Scene Renderings --- 4 Watercolors.</UNITTITLE></DID></C03>

<CO3><DID>
<UNITLOC LOCTYPE="CONTAINER" CONTAINERTYPE="OVERSIZE-CABINET">Ff</UNITLOC>
<UNITLOC LOCTYPE="CONTAINER" CONTAINERTYPE="FOLDER"> b.4</FOLDER></UNITLOC>
<UNITLOC LOCTYPE="CONTAINER" CONTAINERTYPE="FRAME">Framed</UNITLOC>
<UNITTITLE>1 Watercolor.</UNITTITLE></DID></C03>
etc...

In doing a retrospective conversion of an original finding aid - I think I
would retain the original description "1 Watercolor" as unittitle,
primarialy for the sake of speed, but it would be more correct for the way
Steven went about it - adding the description "Scene renderings" (since
this is the description used earler) followed by a physdesc.

Also, It can be argued that that "framed" could be a physical description,
rather than a location. After thinking on the issue this weekend, this
seems to make the most sense. Most framed pieces will have been framed
before they come to us for description, this fact makes the piece -
document and frame - an artifact in itself which should be described as
such. The exception would be if the archivist or conservator framed the
piece (document, photograph, painting, etc.) after it was brought into the
possession of an archive - then it would make sense as a location (this
would deserve an <ADMININFO><PROCESSINFO> description as well). It's
obvious that EAD has great potential for curatorial description, and it
would be interesting to see how it might be put to use in such an
enviroment. With these things in mind, here's how some tagging might look:

<CO3><DID>
<UNITLOC LOCTYPE="CONTAINER" CONTAINERTYPE="OVERSIZE-CABINET">Ff</UNITLOC>
<UNITLOC LOCTYPE="CONTAINER" CONTAINERTYPE="FOLDER"> b.4</FOLDER></UNITLOC>
<UNITTITLE>Scene rendering</UNITTITLE>
<PHYSDESC><EXTENT>1</EXTENT>, <PHYSFACET>Watercolor,
</PHYSFACET><PHYSFACET>Framed, </PHYSFACET><DIMENSIONS>18 x 22
inches</DIMENSIONS></PHYSDESC>
</DID></C03>

A more common example would be:

<C02 LEVEL="SUBSERIES"><DID><UNITTITLE>Photographs</UNITTITLE></DID>
<C03><DID><UNITTITLE>Portrait - unknown female subject</UNITTITLE></DID>
<PHYSDESC><PHYSFACET>Tintype, </PHYSFACET><PHYSFACET>Cased,
</PHYSFACET><DIMENSIONS>2 x 3 inches</DIMENSIONS></PHYSDESC>
</DID></C03> etc...

Stephen

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Stephen Douglas Miller
Digital Encoding Archivist
Special Collections Library
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708

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