Working in Middletown oral history transcripts

Collection

Identifier: MSC-007

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection includes oral history transcripts of residents in Muncie, Indiana from 1974 to 1976. The collection also includes other supporting research materials. The interviewees are anonymous.

Dates

Creation: 1974-1975

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Copyright Notice

Legal title, copyright, and literary rights reside with Archives and Special Collections, Ball State University Libraries, Muncie, IN. All requests to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to Archives and Special Collections.

Historical Note

The Working in Middletown oral history project was inspired by Robert S. and Helen M. Lynd`s Middletown and Studs Terkel`s Working. It was funded by The Indiana Committee for the Humanities (ICH). Over the course of two years C. Warren Vander Hill, Dwight Hoover, Bruce Meyer, J. Paul Mitchell, and John Condran interviewed a variety of Muncie residents about their work experience.

Extent

0.8 Cubic Feet (2 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in the following series:

Series 1: Working in Middletown transcripts, 1974-1976

Accruals

No further additions are expected.

Existence and Location of Copies

These interviews are published in Working in Middletown: Getting a Livng in Muncie, Indiana by John G. Condran.

Related Materials

Materials relating to this collection may be found in the following collections in Archives and Special Collections, Ball State University Libraries, Muncie IN:

MSC.001: Middletown III surveys, 1976-1979

MSC.002: Black Middletown surveys, 1970s

MSC.003: Middletown Area Study surveys, 1978-2004

MSC.004: Middletown articles and writings, 1929-present

MSC.005: Middletown Studies bibliographies, 1929-1990

MSC.006: Middletown Studies student papers, undated

MSC.008: Indiana Oral History Project transcripts, 1969-1980

MSC.009: Middletown Studies newspaper clippings, 1920-1991

MSC.010: First Measured Century oral history transcripts, 2000

MSC.011: Bureau of Business Research reports, 1973-1974

MSC.012: Middletown Studies Collection unpublished writings, 1922-1990

MSC.013: Lynd correspondence and papers, 1922-1982

MSC.014: Middletown III working papers, 1970s

MSC.015: C. Warren Vander Hill project files and papers, 1924-1999

MSC.016: Middletown Exhibit photographs, 1900-1940s

MSC.017: My Grandfather's Middletown slide presentation, 1982

MSC.018: Lynn Perrigo papers, 0921-1992

MSC.019: Middletown III u-matic tapes, 1980

MSC.020: Middletown Studies magnetic tapes, 1980

MSC.022: Middletown III papers, 1921-1922

MSC.023: Middletown Film Series ephemera, 1979