Types of Primary Resources
Documents
Advertisements
Arrest Records
Catalogues
Census
City Directories
Guidebooks
Laws
Ledgers
Newspaper
Obituaries
Patents
Recepts of Purchase
Recipes
Sheet Music
Ship Logs
Trials Transcripts
Wills
First Person Accounts
Diaries
Journals
Travel Journals
Letters
Interviews
Autobiography/Memoir
Oral Histories
Wills
Speeches
Theater billings
Artifacts
maps
photos
paintings
cartoons
architecture
useful and decorative
objects