To find primary sources at CMU (or Prospector or Worldcat libraries) you can add the word sources to your search.
For example: labor unions and women and sources
You can also add "type" words to your search, for primary sources of different types.
For example: suffrage movement and personal narratives.
Words that describe primary source types include:
Encompasses a variety of popular live performance types such as theatre, vaudeville, minstrel, circus, reenactments, burlesque, etc.
Similar material would work for genre fiction such as romance, fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, horror, etc.
Could refer to comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, manga, or other modes of published visual storytelling.
This could mean scripted or unscripted sports competitions such as wrestling, American football, soccer, the Olympics, etc.
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Social Sciences, Health Sciences, Business,
Education, Literature Open Access Resource HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. Titles out of copyright and in public domain are viewable.
The tools you use to find primary sources will be individual to your topic. You can ask questions like where, when, why, how to brainstorm digital collections that may exist for your topic. Keep these especially in mind:
You can also use your secondary sources to get an idea of where primary sources might exist. Take a look at the references in the bibliography and see where the author(s) found their primary sources.
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