Bureau of Business Research reports

Collection

Identifier: MSC-011

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection includes reports written by Joseph D. Brown and published by the Bureau of Business Research at Ball State University ranging from 1973 to 1974. The subject of the reports is the economic status of Muncie, Indiana.

Dates

Creation: 1973 - 1974

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.

Conditions Governing Use

Historical Note

These twelve reports are concerned with the industrial development in Muncie, Indiana. They are a product of a study concerning the labor management contributions to the future growth of Muncie’s economy. This project was financially aided through a federal grant from the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, IMPACT (Title I) Program of the Higher Education Act of 1965 and administered by the State of Indiana Commission for Higher Education.

Extent

0.4 Cubic Feet (1 box)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in the following series:

Series 1: Bureau of Business Research reports, 1973-1974

Accruals

No further additions are expected.

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.007: Working in Middletown interviews and transcripts, 1969-1980

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MSC.012: Middletown Studies Collection unpublished writings, 1922-1990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