MetaFilter posts tagged with primarysources

Canadian War Posters

flibbertigibbet — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:29:12 -0800

Canadian War Poster Collection at McGill University. And if that doesn't strike your fancy, the list of digital collections include such time-honoured favourites as Expo '67, and the award-winner for unexpected collection, Gynaecology in Traditional Chinese Medicine. (previously)

People's Past, In Pictures, Pamphlets, and Prose

Rykey — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:46:44 -0800

Drawing from 175 digital collections and growing, American Social History Online pulls together primary sources documenting our past as a people. A project of the Digital Library Federation. Use the shortcuts (homepage, right-hand side) to browse by subject, location, or time period (or browse tag clouds if that's your thing). Browse collections alphabetically (grid or list view), with the top 20 headings for each if you like. Use the powerful advanced search to search any part of a record, limit search results by media type, or search only within a specific date range. Get a free OpenID that allows you to save search histories and set preferences. Download Zotero previously, a Firefox extension, to organize, annotate, and share your finds.

In the First Person -- an index to letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives

cog_nate — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:01:54 -0800

In the First Person "is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. It lets you keyword search more than 700,000 pages of full-text by more than 18,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 4,300 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records." (Description from website.) You can also browse by repository, collection, subject and several other ways.

Family Tales

ozomatli — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:03:01 -0800

FamilyTales started out as an online archive of letters from a few families but has since expanded to contain letters from many historic figures. I love primary sources. Some highlights include: letters from John Brown awaiting execution, a woman's eyewitness account of the Great San Francisco Earthquake, and Daniel Endsley's Vietnam Journal letters.

RTFA

srboisvert — Sat, 14 Dec 2002 12:48:25 -0800

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