"Primary sources provide first-hand testimony or direct evidence concerning a topic under investigation. They are created by witnesses or recorders who experienced the events or conditions being documented. Often these sources are created at the time when the events or conditions are occurring, but primary sources can also include autobiographies, memoirs, and oral histories recorded later. Primary sources are characterized by their content, regardless of whether they are available in original format, in microfilm/microfiche, in digital format, or in published format."--Yale University Library.

Search by keyword for your topic in the online catalog and add one of these words

• charters
• correspondence
• diaries
• early works
• interviews
• manuscripts
• oratory
• pamphlets
• personal narratives
• sources
• speeches
• letters
• documents

Search for a subject such as France--History--20th century and add the subdivision Sources.

Retronews:  Le site de Presse de la BNF  -- a Gateway to collections in the Bibliothèque nationale de France

ARTFL

Early Canadiana Online
Digital versions of texts of works from Canada's heritage. Includes Canadian
Women's History, Champlain Society Publications, Colonial Government
Journals, English Canadian Literature, and more.

France in America (Library of Congress American Memory)

Gallica -- Comprehenisive digital library to French national collections.

Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online, 1542-1945
Contains primary source materials in women's history that span four centuries and fifteen languages.

Oaister
Union catalog of digital resources.

La Belle Assemblee, or Court and Fashionable Magazine (available in British Periodicals)

Bow Bells (available in British Periodicals)

Century Magazine (AP2.C4)

Every Saturday: an Illustrated Weekly Journal (AP2.E93)

Harper's Magazine (AP2.H3)

Harper's Weekly (AP2.H32)

Ladies' Repository (fewer illustrations) (AP2.L15)

Life (AP2.L547)

L'Illustration (AP20.I3)

Die Gartenlaube (AP30.G24)

Diogenes (AP101.D5)

Puck (AP101.P7)

Punch (AP101.P8)

Kladderadatsch (AP105.K6)

Godey's Magazine (Special Collections/Grille and online in American Periodical Series)

Journal des Demoiselles (online in Gerritsen Collection but WITHOUT the plates!)