American Legion Delaware Post 19 records
Scope and Contents
Dates
- 1919-1978
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Administrative History
Delaware Post 19 formed on August 10, 1920, just nine days after the state level department of the American Legion was chartered. The post and its members have been actively involved in advocating legislation in support of veterans, coordinating events and memorial services for local veterans, promoting civic education and awareness, sponsoring local athletic teams, and supporting other community services in Muncie and Delaware County. The first headquarters was located at 211 1/2 S. Walnut. In 1925, E. Arthur and Frances D. Ball donated land at 418 N. Walnut for use as a meeting place for the group. The donors requested that at the end of sixty years the land and the building thereon would be used as a war memorial or the land would revert back to the city of Muncie for use as a park. The building now has the official title of the Delaware County War Memorial Building and continues to serve as the Delaware Post 19 headquarters.
Extent
4 Cubic Feet (: MSS.029 (10 boxes); P.006 (1 box); POVA.065 (1 box).)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Series 1: American Legion Delaware Post 19 administrative records, 1919-1973
Series 2: American Legion Delaware Post 19 convention program, reports and yearbooks, 1928-1974
Subseries 2.1: Indiana Annual Convention yearbooks and programs, 1928-1974
Subseries 2.2: National Convention brochures, programs and reports, 1932-1969
Series 3: American Legion Delaware Post 19 historical papers, 1919-1978
Series 4: American Legion Delaware Post 19 photographs, circa 1920-1960, 1974
P.006: American Legion Delaware Post 19 photographs, circa 1920-1960, 1974
POVA.065: American Legion Delaware Post 19 oversized photographs, 1928
Custodial History
Accruals
Separated Materials
Daily Worker, 1937/09/21
Muncie Evening Press, 1930/11/10, 1934/08/25, 1936/08/22
Muncie Morning Star, 1930/11/11
The Munsonian, 1943/04/09
Processing Information
- Correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Manuscripts Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Programs Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
- Scrapbooks Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Stoeckel Archives of Local History Subject Source: Local sources
- Veterans Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- World War, 1914-1918 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- World War, 1939-1945 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- American Legion Delaware Post 19 records
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Stoeckel Archives of Local History Repository
Alexander M. Bracken Library
2000 W. University Avenue
Muncie Indiana 47306 USA
libarchives@bsu.edu