History of Medicine, Healthcare, and Disease

The circulating collections and Special Collections at NYU contain:

• manuscripts and other archival materials,
• correspondence and diaries,
• photographs, films, artwork, music,
• posters and prints,
• government documents and data sets,
• ephemera and artifacts,
• serials and books,
• maps and other resources

Visit the NYU Libraries website and the Special Collections website for details on library holdings.

To find cataloged materials at NYU and consortium libraries, use the NYU Libraries Catalog. You can narrow your search results to NYU Special Collections by selecting that option from the dropdown in the search box. Searches in the catalog will retrieve collection-level descriptions, which are helpful to identify relevant collections.

When searching in the Library Catalog, start broadly and narrow your search based on your results. Consult the subject headings for additional search terms.

See the Archives Beyond Bobst research guide for tips on finding materials in archival repositories around the world.

Consult the Using Archives & Manuscripts research guide for additional information and assistance.

Primary Sources are:

• Materials that contain direct evidence, first-hand testimony, or an eyewitness account concerning a topic or event under investigation
• Sources that provide the raw data for your research
• Examples:  In addition to diaries, correspondence, statistics, photographs, and the many other types of sources typically considered to be primary sources, you may add just anything to the list.  The way you interpret or use a source determines whether it is a primary source or not.

LINK to the NYU Libraries Research Guide to Finding and Using Primary Sources

[Letter home from a Union nurse concerning her lodging and daily life.], n.d.

Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society, [nhnycw/ak ak00028]
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhshome.html