"Primary sources are actual records that have survived from the past, such as letters, photographs, articles of clothing.
Secondary sources are accounts of the past created by people writing about events sometime after they happened." Library of Congress Website (source)
Primary Sources
What is a Primary Source?
"Primary sources are actual records that have survived from the past, such as letters, photographs, articles of clothing.
Secondary sources are accounts of the past created by people writing about events sometime after they happened." Library of Congress Website (source)
Definitions from:
See American Library Association's Information
See Wikipedia's Information
See Yale's Information
Library of Congress Lesson Plan for Teachers on What are Primary Sources?
The Library of Congress has a wealth of primary source documents
Repositories of Primary Source Documents Index
Primary Sources available on the Web
Many Universities have collections of Primary Source Documents. Here are just a few examples.
Historical Societies and State Libraries are two more resources for primary source documents: