American Memory Collection

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American Memory Collection
The

• Using Primary Sources
• Susan Gray

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• A Project of the Library of Congress
• http//memory.loc.gov/

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American Memory is a Gateway

• To rich primary source materials
• relating to the history and culture
• of the United States.

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The American Memory Site

• Offers more than
• 7 million digital items
• From more than 100 historical collections.

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Primary Sources

• Might include
• Pictures
• Original Historical Documents
• Oral History Sound Files

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Photo Collections
Follow these steps to locate photos

• American Memory
• Collection Finder
• Photos and Prints

Ansel Adams Manzanar Photographs Collection
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Printed Materials

• Might include
• Books and Printed Texts
• Manuscripts
• Sheet Music
• Historical Documents

Brown's Iron Bitters Ad
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Sound and Movie Files

• Oral Histories
• Music Clips
• Motion Pictures

Buster Keaton in Sherlock Jr., 1924
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Questions for Analyzing Primary Sources

• Who created the source and why?
• Did the reporter have firsthand knowledge?
• Was it recorded during or after the event?

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More questions

• Was the reporter neutral
• or biased?
• Was the intent to inform or persuade?
• Was the material intended to be public or
  private?

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Primary Sources

• Can bring history to life
• Learn from the real documents
• and memorabilia our American
• history was built on!

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Bibliography

• Pictures and information from
• Library of Congress
• American Memory Collection at
• http//memory.loc.gov/
• Including the following collections
• 1- Inventing Entertainment the Early Motion
  Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison
  Companies
• Cont.

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Bibliography cont.

• 2-"Suffering under a Great Injustice" Ansel
  Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American
  Internment at Manzanar
• 3- Emergence of Advertising in America