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An Introduction to Primary Sources
Created by School of Information graduate students Amy Barritt & Teresa Hebron
According to the glossary of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), a primary source is "[m]aterial that contains firsthand accounts of events and that was created contemporaneous to those events or later recalled by an eyewitness."
Examples of primary sources held by the Bentley Historical Library include:
- Manuscripts
- Audio recordings
- Photographs
- Diaries and journals
- Scrapbooks
- Correspondence
- Catalogs and advertisements
- City directories
- Maps
- Newspapers
- Films & visual materials
- And many more...