Finding Primary Sources Research Guide

A collection of key presidential speeches in American history. All include transcripts, and some are available in their entirety in audio or video. From UVA.

Produced from 1929-1967 and released twice weekly, they were shown before feature films and in dedicated newsreel theaters. Each contains 6-7 short stories covering world events, politics, sports, and more.

Streamed collection of C-SPAN archives, since 1987. Includes floor debates, committee hearings, state of the unions, and more.

This library contains digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download

This library contains recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download

This collection contains over 1,000 Classic TV commercials and public service announcements (PSAs) from the 1950's to the 1980s.

AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. These commercials were created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B).

The 9/11 Television News Archive is a library of news coverage of the events of 9/11/2001 and their aftermath as presented by U.S. and international broadcasters. A resource for scholars, journalists, and the public, it presents one week of news broadcasts for study, research and analysis.

Television News of the Civil Rights Era, 1950-1970, aims to collect, digitize, and present in streaming video format over the World Wide Web television news footage from the period and to make these valuable materials available to scholars, teachers, and students. The current archive contains films from the nightly news from two local television stations in Virginia--WDBJ (CBS) Roanoke and WSLS (NBC) Roanoke. In this initial installment we have digitized over 230 films. This rare footage includes full speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, the governors of the Commonwealth of Virginia, as well as original footage of school desegregation, public meetings, local debates over civil rights matters, and interviews with citizens.

Hundreds of thousands of images digitized from primary sources and NYPL printed rarities.

Great source of public domain, creative commons, or otherwise reusable images. Each image is usually accompanied by source and copyright information.

This collection contains over 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI). Users can limit their search by photographer, location, date and more.