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Hello. I have a secret to share. I am a whisper from a long, long time ago. Sometimes I am a letter written with a feather pen, and sometimes I am a photograph where everyone looks very serious. I can even be a diary with a tiny key, a map of a hidden treasure, or a clay pot that someone made with their own hands. I am a little piece of the past you can hold in your hand.
I am a real piece of a true story. People who study the past, called historians, search for me. They find me in big libraries and quiet rooms full of old things. They look at me very carefully because I am a special clue. If I am a drawing on a cave wall from thousands of years ago, I can show them what big, fuzzy animals lived back then. I was made right when something was happening, so I am a very important clue to what was real.
My job is to help you know what happened long ago. When you look at a drawing you made when you were little, you are holding me. When you see a picture of your grandpa when he was a small boy, you are looking at me. My name is Primary Source. I help you see what life was like for people in the past, and I connect you to all their amazing stories. I am a little piece of yesterday that you can see today.
A Clue from Long Ago
Hello. I have a secret to share. I am a whisper from a long, long time ago. Sometimes I am a letter written with a feather pen, and sometimes I am a photograph where everyone looks very serious. I can even be a diary with a tiny key, a map of a hidden treasure, or a clay pot that someone made with their own hands. I am a little piece of the past you can hold in your hand.
I am a real piece of a true story. People who study the past, called historians, search for me. They find me in big libraries and quiet rooms full of old things. They look at me very carefully because I am a special clue. If I am a drawing on a cave wall from thousands of years ago, I can show them what big, fuzzy animals lived back then. I was made right when something was happening, so I am a very important clue to what was real.
My job is to help you know what happened long ago. When you look at a drawing you made when you were little, you are holding me. When you see a picture of your grandpa when he was a small boy, you are looking at me. My name is Primary Source. I help you see what life was like for people in the past, and I connect you to all their amazing stories. I am a little piece of yesterday that you can see today.
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A primary source is an artifact, document, or other source of information that was created at the time under study, serving as an original source of information about the topic.
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