History uses "Turabian". The Turabian manual interprets Chicago Style in an easy to understand way for students. It is still Chicago Style.
Find print copies at the Library
Reference Area
Main floor, middle shelves
LB2369 .T8
Online Resources
A Quick Guide is available online from the publisher or you can consult the full Chicago Manual Online.
The Chicago & Turabian Manuals include primary sources as well by type of source (newspaper, letters, documents, etc.) but sometimes you will need to find the closest match and adapt your citation.
In particular:
14.229: Examples of note forms for manuscript collections
14.230: Examples of bibliography entries for manuscript collections
Footnote
1. Name of author, "Name of item," date (date-mo-year), Name of collection, Item locator, Repository.Bibliography
Name of collection, Name of repository.
Letter
See Chicago 14.228 re: Collections of letters
Footnote
1. Joseph Battell to President Ezra Brainerd, 2 February 1893, A2 President Brainerd, Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives (hereafter cited as MC Archives). http://middarchive.middlebury.edu/cdm/ref/collection/archadmin/id/2136
Bibliography
A2 President Brainerd, Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives.
Footnote
1. Ruth Hesselgrave, Scrapbook of Ruth Hesselgrave, class 1918, circa 1915-1919, College Archives, Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives.
Bibliography
College Archives, Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives.
Footnote
1. Photograph of Ezra Brainerd, Middlebury College President, 1864, College Archives A2 PF, Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives.
Bibliography
No bibliographic entry is required for photographs. Put all required information in the footnote or text.
Sample paper using Chicago Manual of Style (17th ed) with footnotes (opens as a PDF document)
Sample paper using the Chicago Manual of Style (17th ed) author / date (opens as a PDF document)
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