Examples
Specific Examples
Interviews, surveys, fieldwork, and Internet communications via email, blogs, listservs, and newsgroups are also primary sources.
Primary Source Examples
Published documents - books, newspapers, pamphlets, advertisements, laws, etc. Example: The Silent Worker, a Deaf newspaper.
Visual documents and artifacts. Example: Ahira Webster diary when he was a student at the NY Institute for the Deaf.
Visual history and traditions. Example: Deaf printing visual history video.
Photographs: Example: Photo of NTID Deaf students during a 1971 ground-breaking ceremony.
Use of RIT resources is reserved for current RIT students, faculty
and staff for academic and teaching purposes only.
Please contact your librarian with any questions.
