Primary and Secondary Sources
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Primary sources are actual records that have survived from the past, such as letters,
photographs, articles of clothing.
Secondary sources are accounts of the past created by people writing about events
sometime after they happened.
People living in the past left many clues about their lives. These clues include both
primary and secondary sources as well as many other things. Historians call all of these
clues together the historical record.
advertisements
anecdotes
artifacts
books
census data
coins
correspondence
court decisions
dance card
deeds
diaries
diploma
editorial cartoons
eyewitnesses accounts
family Bibles containing family
histories
films
financial ledgers
government documents
handbills
interviews
journals
laws
literary manuscript
magazines
maps
newspapers
obituaries
Oral traditions and oral histories
pamphlets
passenger lists
patent
personal letters
personal papers
photographs
political leaflet
postcards
posters
school report cards
scrapbook
sheet music
speeches
stamps
ticket stub
wills