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David Dale family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-189
Scope and Contents

This collection includes genealogical research including research notes, family relations worksheets, and photocopies of municipal records; photocopied documents from the 1926 George R. Dale contempt of court trial include newspaper clippings, telegrams, letters, and cartoons from David Dale in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1790 to 1995 regarding David Dale`s family history.

Dates: 1790-1995

Gene McCreery collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-303
Scope and Contents This collection consists of records ranging from 1790 to 2009 documenting the personal and professional life of Dr. Gene Sharp McCreery of Harrison Township, Delaware County, Indiana. Records include personal documents (transcripts, certificates and diplomas, land deeds, membership cards, daily planners, yearbooks, greeting cards, and correspondence); international records documenting McCreery’s humanitarian work in various countries (program administrative records, foreign language study...
Dates: 1790-2009

H. Earl Browning family papers and photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-147
Scope and Contents

This collection includes the papers, photographs and negatives from the H. Earl Browning family in Muncie, IN ranging from 1920 to 1976 regarding family correspondence, war records, financial records, personal documents, photographs and negatives.

Dates: 1920-1976

Lydia Jane Streib family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-299
Scope and Contents

This collection includes photographs, scrapbooks, and yearbooks from Lydia Jane Streib in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1888 to 1931 regarding Ball State history yearbooks, Retro yearbooks, Washington D.C. scrapbook, and Streib's personal correspondence.

Dates: 1888, 1922-1934

Maddy family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-084
Scope and Contents

The collection includes documents related to the Maddy family, including mortgages, judgments, tax receipts, cancelled notes, death receipts, a letter of guard, commissioner's deed, and correspondence from 1838 to 1917.

Dates: 1838-1917

Marsh and Ryan family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-133
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence, business records, certificates, legal documents, genealogy research materials, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other records ranging from 1816 to 1988 documenting the history of the Marsh and Ryan families of Muncie, Indiana. The collection also includes genealogical research for John Clawson, an ancestor of the Marsh family,and genealogical research for Frances Elizabeth Pace Marsh's family, including documents on the Pace, Peck, Hopkins, and...
Dates: 1816 - 1988

McCormick Brothers Company records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-218
Scope and Contents

This collection includes correspondence, business records, family genealogical papers, product blueprints and drawings, trade publications, and other materials from the McCormick Brothers Company in Albany, Indiana ranging from 1819 to 1990 regarding company history and business transactions, and McCormick family history, photographs and negatives. These records and graphic materials were used for Griner's book The McCormicks of Albany.

Dates: 1819-1990

Osborn and Bussell families papers

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Identifier: MSS-139
Scope and Contents

This collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, teacher's contracts, financial records, photographs, and other records for the Osborn and Bussell families of Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1922-1992.

Dates: 1922-1992

Pittenger family correspondence and photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-281
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence between John and Caroline Johnson Pittenger and other members of the Pittenger family (1910-1933), advertisements from local businesses (undated), and two brochures related to local school activities (1933-1955). The Edith Pittenger Photographs (PSC 335, 1890-1970s) include photographs of natural gas wells in Delaware County, photographs of the Ball State University campus, and photographs of surgeons from Ball Memorial Hospital taken by Edith...
Dates: 1910 - 1933

Ryan-Stradling-Shirey-Puntenney-Tuhey families papers

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Identifier: MSS-127
Scope and Contents

The collection of family history contains newspaper clippings, funeral notices, a Ryan family publication, a genealogy of the Stradling family, correspondence, and photographs. Most notably, this collection contains the Civil War letters of John D. Stradling, and the personal papers of J. C. Ryan documenting Muncie businesses and relief work in Trebizond, Turkey.

Dates: 1853-1914

Sparks Family Association correspondence and newsletters

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Identifier: MSS-286
Scope and Contents

This collection includes correspondence and newsletters from the Sparks Family Association ranging from 1953 to 2008 regarding family history and genealogy.

The collection consists of two series. The first series is correspondence between Jack Carmichael and a number of other members of the SFA, primarily Russell Bidlock. The second series consists of publications series includes volumes I through XVIII of The Sparks Quarterly, spanning from March 1953 to December 1970.

Dates: 1953-2008

Thomas P. and Eva Mann family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-046
Scope and Contents

This collection includes a school book and papers, records of births in the family, a memoranda book, postcards, Westwood property assessments and plat maps, correspondence, photographs and a film reel from the Mann family in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1896 to 1959 regarding the Mann family`s history and travels.

Dates: 1896-1959