Digital Content for Archival Instruction

Purdue Digital Collections

All digitized collections are available in e-Archives. Highlights include:

• Amelia Earhart at Purdue Collection
• Black Cultural Center Digital and Historic Archives Project 
• Board of Trustees Minutes
• Debris Student Yearbooks
• Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Papers
• George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers
• Medieval Manuscript Leaves
• Philosophy Born of Struggle Conference records
• Purdue History in Photographs
• Purdue University Annual Reports
• Purdue University Course Catalogs
• Purdue University Newsreels

Purdue Digital Resources

These resources contextualize the history of Purdue University and the primary source materials held in the Purdue Archives.

• Purdue Historical Newspapers
• Purdue Campus Facilities and Buildings Historic Database
• Purdue Publications Index
• Memoirs and Memories Blog
• Online Exhibits

Primary Source Databases

Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies subscribes to several databases that include digitized primary source content. All databases are available on the Libraries Databases website. Highlights include:

• Adam Matthew Primary Sources Research Methods
• African American Periodicals
• Anthropological Fieldwork Online
• American Indian Histories and Cultures
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online
• Food and Drink in History
• Gender: Identity and Social Change
• Political Extremism and Revivalism in the Twentieth Century
• Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900
• Smithsonian Collections Online: Evolution of Flight, World's Fairs and Expositions
• Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000

Other Primary Source Databases and Resources

These resources created by other archival institutions or organizations offer access to primary sources and primary source instructional materials.

• Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets
• Indiana Memory
• Photogrammar
• Project STAND (Student Activism Now Documented)
• Radcliffe Institute Suffrage School Digital Teaching Modules
• Smithsonian Archives of American Art
• Library of Congress Zine Web Archive