Primary Source Documents in U.S. History

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Primary Sources	Photographic Archives	Advertising in the US	Political Cartoons

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Primary Source Documents
	Library of Congress American Memory. Articles, pamphlets, photographs, handbills - you name it. This is the Library of Congress's effort to make its wonderful collection available to everyone.
	Primary Source Documents and Document-Based Essay Questions. A wealth of sites with all sorts of primary source documents.
	Documents for the Study of American History Hundreds of documents, organized by decades.
	National Archives. The collection of primary source materials from the National Archives.

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Photographic Archives
	Matthew Brady's National Portrait Gallery. A virtual tour of Matthew Brady's photographic output. The link here takes you to the index of the collection.
	The Great Depression in Photographs. A collection of photographs from the 1920s and 1930s from About.com
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Advertising in the US
	The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States.
	*AD Access.** Thousands of ads from the 1920s onward, demonstrating Americans ability to sell anything. "A selection of historical advertisements of over 7,000 ads, mainly from U.S. publications dating between 1911 and 1955, regarding: Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II.".
	*AD Views.** Hundreds of commericals from the 1950s to the early 21st century.
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Political Cartoons
	Politcal Cartons by Herblock. A collections of Herb Block's political cartoons, from the 1920s to the 1980s.
	Cartoons for U.S. History. Political cartoons from the 1880s to early 1900s
	Political Cartoons of the 1880s and 1890s from Puck.
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