Primary sources are materials that provide firsthand accounts of events by people who participated or were present at the time the event occurred. Some examples of primary sources are letters, diaries, speeches, company records, government documents, films, photographs, Tweets, maps, audio recordings, posters, postcards, or other materials. According to the Library of Congress, "Primary sources provide a window into the past—unfiltered access to the record of artistic, social, scientific and political thought and achievement during the specific period under study, produced by people who lived during that period."
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For more primary sources at the Leatherby Libraries, please contact:
Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections & Archives
Email: speccoll@chapman.edu