Our Local History: Primary Sources Online

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Our Local History Primary Sources Online

• Claudia Rivers, Head Special Collections
  Department, University of Texas at El Paso
  Library

Resources you and the public can use!
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What are primary sources?

• Primary sources are original records created at
  the time historical events occurred or well after
  events in the form of memoirs and oral histories.
  
• These sources serve as the raw material to
  interpret the past, and when they are used along
  with previous interpretations by historians, they
  provide the resources necessary for historical
  research.

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University of Texas at El Paso,1914-2014

• Because of the upcoming centennial celebration,
  the UTEP Library has been putting more material
  online.

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C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department is
a place that you can start looking for local
history links.

• University of Texas at El Paso Library
• http//libraryweb.utep.edu/special/

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http//libraryweb.utep.edu
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Image collections
Freshman class, School of Mines,
1929 Stout-Feldman Studio photographs, PH074-6997
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http//cdm15823.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/
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Images on many themes
Industrial
Portraits
MS585-B-09-F-03-019 (ASARCO)
PH041-04-00008 Casasola
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City landscape
Oscar Bernard photographs, PH047-127
Historical events
Wayne Brendt collection, MS245-1-1-029
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Newspapers
From Portal to Texas History, http//texashistory.
unt.edu/
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Chronicling America (http//chroniclingamerica.loc
.gov/)
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The Prospector, student newspaper at the
University of Texas at El Paso
http//theprospector.newspaperarchive.com/
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UTEP Centennial and Digital Commons
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UTEP Centennial and Digital Commons
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Spring, 1968
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http//digitalcommons.utep.edu/oral_history/
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El Paso City Directories

• Start in the 1880s most years after 1900
• May be searched free text or browsed
• Include some Juárez information
• Often tell names of other family members living
  with the head of household, occupations, and
  places of employment
• Digital Commons _at_ UTEP has through 1905
• Portal to Texas History has through 1922

http//texashistory.unt.edu/
http//digitalcommons.utep.edu/city_direct/
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Page from Hudspeths 1921 El Paso City
Directory, Portal to Texas History http//texashis
tory.unt.edu/
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American Memoryhttp//memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.
html Includes many photos of El Paso
Other Library of Congress sites

• A Century of Lawmaking for a New NationU.S.
  Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1875
• Includes Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Boundary Survey documents

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