finding primary sources
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OED• 16. In the context of academic research or
writing: designating source material contemporary with the period or thing studied; designating an original document, source, or text rather than one of criticism, discussion, or summary.
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• Watsonline
• Subscription Databases (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,
American Periodicals Series)
• Free Web Resources(Gallica, Perseus, WESSWeb, UbuWeb,
Intute)
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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
• Time coverage: – 1880-1910 1836-1922
• States: – California, District of Columbia, Florida,
Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, Texas, Utah, and Virginia
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American Periodicals Series• Over 1,500 periodicals
• 1741-1900
• General interest, children’s publications and journals for women
• 118 periodicals published during the Civil War (1861-1865) and Reconstruction (1865-1877) eras
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GALLICA
National Library of France
http://gallica.bnf.fr/
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Perseus Digital Library
• Greek and Roman materials
• Renaissance materials
• 19th-century American sources, including Richmond Times Dispatch
• Arabic language documents
• Germanic materials
• Non-literary papyri from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods
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Aristophanes, Lysistrata
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Digitized manuscripts
• A selection of French literary manuscripts
• The Tale of Genji and other Japanese manuscripts from the Edo period
• Manuscripts from the Royal Archives of Korea
• Medieval illuminated manuscripts• Manuscripts from Dunhuang• And more
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Intute: Arts and Humanities: Visual Arts: Resource type
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• Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1841-1902)• Institute and Museum of the History of
Science (Italy)• Archivegrid• Macbeth Gallery catalogs (1895-1953)• British History Online• Collect Britain• Eighteenth Century Collections Online• NYPL Digital Gallery
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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