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| | Primary Sources on the Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Primary sources are original records created at the time historical events occurred or well after events in the form of memoirs and oral histories. |
 | | Primary sources may include letters, manuscripts, diaries, journals, newspapers, speeches, interviews, memoirs, documents produced by government agencies such as Congress or the Office of the President, photographs, audio recordings, moving pictures or video recordings, research data, and objects or artifacts such as works of art or ancient roads, buildings, tools, and weapons. |
 | | An electronic version of a primary source can be either a scanned image of the original document (a facsimile) or an ASCII text or word processed version, created by re-keying the content of the document or by using optical character recognition (OCR) to convert the image of the document into text. |
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