Psychological, pedagogical and didactic motives urge a teacher to try to bring historical subject matter closer to the children, first-hand. One of the most successful methods is working with historical sources. Historical sources provide a true material basis for a genuine understanding of historical facts and phenomena. Historical sources not only broaden the historical synthesis given in textbooks, but deepen it as well, making the material more understandable to pupils and history lessons more true to life. In this article the author focused on presenting a photograph, postcard, caricature and poster as a historical source.