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Primary sources: Images, video and audio

This guide is for anyone needing to use primary sources for research, primarily in US history - what they are, what to expect, and how to find them

...a thousand words

Elvis Presley on the monorail during the World's Fair, Seattle, September 1962

Credit:Seattle P-I Collection, Museum of History & Industry. All rights reserved.

Copyright

Above we credited MOHAI as the source of the image to comply with their copyright requirements. Crediting (or citing) is the right thing to do, and in many cases, permission is easy to obtain for academic purposes.  Here is an example of terms and conditions from a photo archive.

Image collections

Find more archives on the Web

Below is a screen shot of how to browse the Web for other archives. This example searches Websites of educational institutions (.edu). Simply replace .edu with .gov or .org to search government and non-profit sites.

Try it:

Google Web Search

Video

Audio

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