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U.S. - Mexico Borderlands: Emigration, Immigration & Migration: Primary Sources & Archives

Library resources for the studies of the US-Mexico Bordlands

Primary Source Material

Archives at Yale

This database consists of finding aids for archival and manuscript materials at Yale University.

Primary Sources

Here you will find primary sources with an emphasis on those at Yale University Libraries.  When searching in ORBIS to find primary sources on a particular topic use these keywords with your searches to find primary source materials.

  • Sources
  • Archives
  • Diaries
  • Personal narratives
  • Correspondence
  • Interviews
  • Speeches
  • Quotations
  • Collections
  • Pictorial Works
  • Statistics
  • Caricatures and cartoons
  • Early works to 1800
  • Facsimiles
  • Pamphlets
  • Newspapers
  • Photographs
  • Songs and music
  • Treaties