Polish-Americans - Archives Dept.  Tags: uwm_archives uwm history polish_americans local_history photographs_as_primary_sources  

We recommend two helpful pages (see links below) written by the library at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In these pages, they use the term "manuscript/s" to refer to unpublished source material that is most often located in archives, special collections, or manuscript repositories. In our guides, we most often use the term "archives" or "archival" to denote this type of unique, unpublished, primary source material. You can understand them as very similar.

Feel free to contact the Archives staff to ask questions about how to locate, use, and understand primary source material. We are most familiar, of course, with the material that we have at UWM, but we will do our best to help you with any question.

Stop into room W250 in the Golda Meir Library building, call 414 229-5402, or email us via the form online at http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/arch/askarch.html

Also, for general research tips, see the "Using Our Collections" tab in this guide.