This local guide provides assistance in pursuing research using primary sources, especially those we have available here in several formats: paper, republication, microfilm, and electronic. The database below helps identifies primary source repositories around the world.
ArchiveGrid serves as a single point of entry that provides online access to descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives worldwide.
You can sometimes find primary sources, or reproductions of them, by searching the online catalog using such terms as personal narratives, diaries, journals, autobiography, letters, records, papers, sources, interviews, early works, archives, or archival sources. For example:
The following free websites might also be useful.