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FINDING PRIMARY SOURCES

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http://libmma.org/portal/instruction/

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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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TYPES OF SOURCES

• NEWSPAPERS

• PERSONAL PAPERS

• LITERARY WORKS

• MANUSCRIPTS

• SOUND & VIDEO

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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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American Phrenological Journal, September 1865

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GALLICA

National Library of France

http://gallica.bnf.fr/

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Daily press

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Newspapers in Gallica

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OXFORD DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY

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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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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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Greek and Roman materials

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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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English emblem books

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UbuWeb

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ubuweb

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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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Thank you for attending!

[email protected]

Watson Library

Metropolitan Museum of Art

library.metmuseum.org