Primary Sources: A Glance into the History of Metropolitan Milwaukee's Digital Archive
Primary Sources: A Glance into the History of Metropolitan Milwaukee's Digital Archive In this course, our use of primary sources were important for a variety of activities such as the Milwaukee Zoo tabling Activity, the Milwaukee Public Museum Tabling Activity, and the Twitter Reenactment. Starting with the Milwaukee Zoo Tabling Activity I was first introduced as to what a primary source is and what its intended use is for. The primary source is an artifact, document, manuscript, or other form of media that was created in the time that's being researched. For this class, there's a digital archive that is through UWM Libraries which are accumulative primary sources that cover a variety of events and information regarding the Milwaukee County Zoo and people associated. In the History of Metropolitan Milwaukee class we focused on the birth of Zero in 1919, which was the first polar bear to be born in captivity in North America. During this time period it can be a bit diffic