Primary sources can look like...
Above, 1906, Southern New England Telephone Company work crew; below, journal entry about the daily work of the crew, Archives & Special Collections of the UConn Library.
Primary sources come in many different formats
- Photographs
- Newspapers written at the time of the event
- Diaries or journals
- Correspondence (letters)
- Oral history, videotaped or telephone interviews
- Email or text messages
- Artwork and sketches
- Speeches
- Manuscripts, or drafts, of a literary person's writings, such as novels or poems
- Official records of a business, including financial ledgers, labor files and business reports
- Maps
- Real estate records
- Patents
Primary sources are also known as...
- Archive/Archives
- Manuscripts
- Papers
- Records
- Historical Documents
- Original Records/Documents
- Records of enduring value
