Library Guides: HIST 27707 Making Chicago: Chapters in the City's History: Finding Primary Sources

Digital Primary Sources

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Part of Nineteenth Century Index. Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the US; National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections; and National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States, with finding aids from 300 U.S. repositories.

Use the BASIC search and the SUBJECT index in the catalog. Here are some sample seaches:

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Subjects: African Studies, African-American Studies, Art, Architecture, and Photography, Arts, Cinema and Media Studies, History, Humanities, Medieval and Byzantine Studies, Social Sciences