Finding Free Primary Sources Online and Using them in Your Classroom

Teaching the Hudson Valley Beyond Field Trips

Teaching The Hudson Valley In Tough Times

Finding Free Primary Sources Online and

Using Them In Your Classroom

Tessa Killian Southeastern NY Library Resources

Council

Susan Stessin-Cohn Historic Huguenot Street

Schultz's Studio, New Paltz, N.Y. Cows in front of the New Paltz Creamery. Haviland-Heidgerd Historical Collection, Elting Memorial Library

Outline

•  Primary sources

•  Tour of online digital collections that contain primary sources

•  Examples of lessons created from primary sources

•  Try a lesson

•  Create a lesson using a primary source

World War II collection of boxes for the Red Cross at a Milton School. Marlboro

Free Library.

Primary Sources

Audio • Speeches • Music • Interviews • Radio Shows

Objects • Household Appliances & Tools • Toys • Buildings • Monuments • Clothing

Visual Material • Maps • Films and Videos • Fine Art – paintings, prints & drawings • Photographs • Daguerreotypes

Places • Cemeteries • Cultured Landscapes – • Ellis Island, Gettysburg, Colonial Williamsburg • Historic Museums - Historic Huguenot Street, Philipsburg Manor, etc. • Parks

Primary Documents

 Census records  Government records  Personal papers  Business records

 Organizational records  Special formats @Susan Stessin-Cohn 2009

Types of Primary Source Materials

Census Records  State - years vary  Federal - 1790-1930

Personal Papers  Letters  Diaries/journals  Wills  Friendship albums  Scrapbooks  Photographs  Recipe albums  Genealogies

Government Records  Tax records  Minutes from meetings  School records  Maps  Wills  Overseer of the Poor records  Military records  Voter lists  Immigration papers  Birth Certificates  Death Certificates

Business Records  Ledgers  Account books  Employees records  Advertising  Old catalogs  City directories

Special Formats • Maps • Photographs • Newspapers • Magazines • Blueprints • Oral histories • Travel brochures • Site brochures

Organizational Records  Clubs  Fraternities  Labor unions

@Susan Stessin-Cohn 2009

Where to find primary sources online…

•  Digital collections contain primary source materials;

•  available from libraries, archives, museums and cultural heritage organizations (national, state, regional, university);

•  have search and browse capabilities;

•  include information about the resources (bibliographic record or metadata);

•  allows us to view and use materials that may otherwise be unavailable.

•  Now we will show you some of the collections that contain primary sources!

Highway Bridge over Esopus Creek. New York State Archives

Library of Congress: American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

American Memory: Teacher’s Guides http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/guides.html

American Memory: Classroom Materials http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/

The National Archives http://www.archives.gov/

The New York Public Library http://www.nypl.org/digital/index.htm

The New York Public Library

The New York State Digital Collection http://www.archives.nysed.gov/d/

The New York State Archives http://www.archives.nysed.gov/projects/throughout/index.shtml

New York State Digital Collections: Catalog http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/scandocs/

Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown New York: Harvest of History

http://www.harvestofhistory.org/index.html

New York Heritage http://www.newyorkheritage.org/

Hudson River Valley Heritage http://www.hrvh.org/

Exhibit in HRVH: The Missing Chapter

Citing Sources & Copyright

MLA Format for a photograph: Cramer, Konrad. Konrad Cramer Photograph of Hervey White.

Woodstock Public Library District. 24 July 2006 <http://www.hrvh. org/u?/woodstock,108>.

Teaching The Hudson Valley http://www.teachingthehudsonvalley.org/

Please contact us with questions

Tessa Killian Southeastern NY Library Resources Council 845 883 9065 killian@senylrc.org

Susan Stessin-Cohn Historic Huguenot Street 845.255.6738 stessincohn@gmail.com

Stowall Studios, Woodstock, N.Y. Two young women. Woodstock

Public Library District