Primary sources are created by participants or observers of the historical event you are researching. This includes: photographs, audio or video recordings, newspapers, interviews, speeches, letters, manuscripts, diaries, journals, born-digital items (e.g. emails), maps, government documents, research data, artifacts (e.g. artwork, tools, architecture), and more.
"Find and Discover: Primary Sources at Yale," Yale University, 2021
https://primarysources.yale.edu/find-discover (Accessed September 23, 2021)
"Primary Sources on the Web: Finding, Evaluating, Using", American Library Association, January 12, 2015
http://www.ala.org/rusa/sections/history/resources/primarysources (Accessed September 23, 2021)
