
primary sources
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What Is the Format of the Document?
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Evaluating Primary Source Web Sites: Examples
- What is the Format of the Documents?
Examples:
- Wright American Fiction
This collection includes both searchable ASCII text and facsimile page images.
- Emergence of Advertising in America
This is a collection of materials in which graphics are as important as
text, if not more so. It includes very clear facsimile page images, but
only provides ASCII text for portions of selected items. - Free Speech Movement Digital Archive
This is a carefully edited and transcribed collection of documents provided in ASCII text only.
Image: Flyer distributed by Silver Bow Trades and Labor
Assembly and Butte Miners' Union in support of Chinese and Japanese
boycott. , ca. 08/1898. Courtesy of NARA.