The phrase "a historical document of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a document that provides evidence or information about a specific historical event, period, or figure.
Example: "The museum displayed a historical document of the signing of the Declaration of Independence."
Alternatives: "a historical record of" or "a historical account of".
Photography gained added interest as a means of recording an artist's performance of an idea and as a historical document of the performance that could be circulated.
The resulting series, "China," is a historical document of a country as its villages turn into cities; its cities into megacities.
Pilecki's report on Auschwitz, unpublishable for decades in Communist Poland and now translated into English under the title "The Auschwitz Volunteer," is a historical document of the greatest importance.
The film is interesting not only as a historical document of internet communities, but also for the innovative format of placing strangers' YouTube videos one after another in quick succession.
Lauder has strong pedagogical inclinations — one gets the impression that he would happily stand in his museum all day long, explaining Egon Schiele's use of graphic distortion to bemused Dutch tourists — and for him the portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer is both a gorgeous object and a historical document of critical importance to the museum's mission.
It often reads like a historical document of another time: a lost world in which women were always "chicks" or "bitches", an inflatable giant penis was a non-ironic stage prop, and a bottle of Jack Daniel's was the de rigueur rock'n'roll accessory.
"This is too important of a historical document to ban from classrooms," Mr. Yauch said in a statement on Monday.
Ohio did not change the world, but, approaching its 40th anniversary, it feels like not just a classic song but a vital historical document of a time when politics felt like a matter of life and death.
A HISTORICAL DOCUMENT A number of traditions persevere on the first day of January.
Mr. Turan calls the book "a historical document, a snapshot of people's thoughts at a given moment in time").
"When I made the film, I had hoped it would be a historical document, a portrait of a very bad moment in American economic history," said John Wells, an executive producer of the television series "ER" and the director of "The Company Men," who began working on the film in 2007.
