A Primary source was created at the time of the event or by people closely involved in the experience when it happened.

• archives and manuscript material

• photographs, audio recordings, video recordings, films

• journals, letters and diaries of the time period

• speeches of the time period

• scrapbooks of the time period

• published books, newspapers and magazine clippings published at the time

• government publications

• oral histories

• records of organizations

• autobiographies and memoirs

• printed ephemera

• artifacts, e.g. clothing, costumes, furniture

• research data, e.g. public opinion polls