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Archival research involves more than simply acquiring data or facts from records. Archival records provide rich ground for historical interpretation. Archives preserve the records of organizations and the personal papers of individuals or families, keeping them together in order to preserve their historical context and meaning. Archival records most often consist of unique and unpublished documents such as: correspondence, diaries, minutes of meetings, scrapbooks, photographs, and reports. Primary sources in archives document past events from the perspective of participants and first hand observers and provide some of the raw materials on which papers, books, and articles are based. They are a resource that can be put to any number of uses that may be quite different than the ones for which the documents were originally created.
Archives Procedures
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Finding materials related to your research topic
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