Stick, gloves and puck that won gold in ice hockey the 2010 winter olympics for Canada.
By mark.watmough, from Flickr, under Creative Commons License
A primary source...was created at the time of the event...or by people who were observers of, or participants in, that event. ...
The medium of the primary source can be anything, including written texts, objects, buildings, films, paintings, cartoons, etc.
--Professor Elspeth H. Brown, Dept. of History, University of Toronto.
See: http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/specific-types-of-writing/history
For another definition:
Yale University: http://www.yale.edu/collections_collaborative/primarysources/primarysources.html
Think about what kinds of primary sources might be related to your topic:
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