This overview explains why and how you can find images to use in course & personal projects.
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Primary sources are original, uninterpreted information, such as firsthand accounts of events in letters, diaries, interviews, or historical news reportage.
For tips on how to find more visual resources or how to cite them, check the Zine How-To page!
A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, reproduced in high-resolution color page images.
Dates: 1892 CE-Present
Full text of six leading women's magazines focused on social issues, women's health, family and the home, politics, and fashion.
Dates: 1883-2005 CE
Full text of alternative press newspapers, magazines, and journals, produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press, and alternative literary magazines.
Dates: 1950-2023 CE
International collection of digitized books, pamphlets, magazines, journals and newspapers from pertaining to social history, women's and gender studies, and women's rights.
Dates: 1543-1988 CE
A full-text collection of advice manuals covering all aspects of social, political, cultural and professional life in the U.S. during the 20th century. Includes textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books.
Dates: 1890-1985 CE