Subject Guide for Finding Primary Resources
Archives
Numerous Topics/Media
- American Memory (Library of Congress)
- Library of Congress Digital Collections
- Archive.org
- Battleground: The Media (Communications Library Reference Non-Circulating) 302.23 B322
- Encyclopedia of Communication and Information (Gale eBooks)
- Credo Reference (use to search specific terms and concepts across multiple encyclopedias, dictionaries and other sources)
Film, Radio, & TV
- Latinx Thought and Culture: The NPR Archive 1979-1990
- American Archive of Public Broadcasting
- The Listener Historical Archive (BBC Radio, & TV Archive)
- American History in Video
- UCLA Film & TV Archive
- Paley Center for Media
- Vanderbilt Television News Archive
- Archive.org
- The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film
- Encyclopedia of Radio (Communications Library Reference Non-Circulating) Q. 384.5403 M972
- Encyclopedia of Television (Communications Library Reference Non-Circulating)
- YouTube
Advertising, Business, & Industry
- Archive.org
- UIUC D’Arcy Collection
- U of I Advertising Exhibit
- Ad*Access (from 1911-1955)
- Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
- Medicine and Madison Avenue (from 1850-1920)
- Smithsonian’s Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: 1724-1977
- Art & Copy (Communications Library Reserves) DVD 659.1 Ar75 / Available on YouTube
- Encyclopedia of Public Relations (Communications Library Reference Non-Circulating)
Newspapers & Magazines
- Chronicling America (1880-1922)– search by subject and time frame
- Chicago Tribune Historical
- New York Times Historical
- Illinois Newspaper Collection
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- A-Z Databases: News & Newspapers
Photography, Cartoons, Visual Culture
- American Memory (Library of Congress)
- Flickr
- J. Paul Getty Museum Photograph Collection
- NYPL Digital Gallery
- NYPL Picture Collection
- Library of Congress Digital Comic Art Collection
- Library of Congress: Prints and Photographs Division
- Curt Teich Postcard Archives Digital Collection
Dress & Fashion
- Dress and Fashion: Design and Manufacture (NYPL Digital Gallery)
- Costume Institute (NY Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Race, Class, & Gender
- American Memory (Library of Congress)
- Balch Institute of Ethnic Studies
- Black Life in America
- Hispanic Life in America
- Documenting the American South
- Schomburg Library of African American History
- Historical Black Newspapers available digitally through UIUC
- Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
- Hispanic American Newspapers (1808-1980)
- American Women’s History Online Archives
- The Smithsonian Institution
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