There are several methods to identify published primary sources using the Knox Primo/I-Share.
A. Find document collections on a topic. There are some specific terms that mark a book as being primary source material. Use any of the following as search terms.
correspondence
letters
papers
diaries
personal narratives sources
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B. Find autobiographical material. Get familiar enough with your topic to know the principle individuals involved and then search the catalog using the names of these individuals as authors.
C. Find books with publication dates in the time period 1919-1933. This could be most any kind of a source: contemporaneous accounts, histories, document collections, etc. Search for these kind of sources in library catalogs using specific keywords that describe your topic. Once you get a list you can limit the list by creation date using the limiter on the left:
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