Primary Source
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Definition:
A primary source is original material, recorded in various formats, during the time of the event or person which you are researching. Primary sources can also be recorded after the events, such as an autobiography.
Examples:
- Autobiographies & Memoirs
- Broadsides
- Census Data or other statistical data
- Court Documents
- Diaries
- Ephemera
- Government Documents
- Interviews
- Letters or other correspondence
- Maps
- Newspapers or Other Periodicals
- Oral Histories
- Photographs
- Political Cartoons
- Speeches
- Treaties and Agreements
- Works of Art, fiction, & music
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