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 [email protected]
Susan Stessin-Cohn Historic Huguenot Street 845.255.6738 [email protected]
Stowall Studios, Woodstock, N.Y. Two young women. Woodstock
Public Library District