Scope and Contents Scope and Contents: This collection contains fraternity and sorority histories, membership lists, awards and recognitions, and recruitment publications from the Office of Greek Life. Subseries 1 contains sorority and fraternity membership lists with sensitive information. Subseries 2 contains fraternity and sorority records produced and collected by the Ball State University Office of Student Affairs, Greek Life Unit from 1939 to 2000. Subseries 3 includes Panhellenic awards and recognitions...

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This collection includes agenda, clippings, correspondence, documents, fliers, leaflets, memoranda, minutes, pamphlets, and proceedings regarding religious organizations, denominations and sects with presences on Ball State University’s campus.

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This collection includes Ball State University men's and women's soccer media guides from 1969-1981 and 2008.

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This collection includes Ball State University men's and women's swimming and diving media guides from 1968-2009.

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This collection includes Ball State University men's and women's tennis media guides ranging from 1970-2009.

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This collection includes Ball State University men's and women's track and field media guides from 1970-2009.

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The Ball State University volleyball printed ephemera collection contains media guides and posters for Ball State University men's and women's volleyball from 1970-2011. In addition, the collection contains media guides, posters and ticket order forms for NCAA men's volleyball championships from 1976 and 1992 along with a media guide for USA men's volleyball vs. Cuba from 1977.

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This collection includes certificates, constitutions, minutes, handbooks, treasurers’ reports, meeting minutes, newsletters, and correspondence ranging from 1950 to 1979.

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This collection includes an organizational history, financial records, newspaper clippings, newsletters, program books, minutes, agenda, correspondence, photographs, newcomers’ reports, and treasurers’ books ranging from 1931 to 2004.

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This collection includes Ball State University men's wrestling media guides from 1968-1982.

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This collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and publications about the Ball Stores in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1944 to 1990 regarding the business and its activities.

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This collection includes family genealogies, biographies, drawings of family crests, photographs, and scrapbooks from the Beatty-Atkins-Ryan family in Muncie, IN ranging from 1903 to 1985.

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The collection contains abstracts of title related to Beech Grove Cemetery dated 1928, 1936, and 1952 that trace the property to 1816. There is also a plat map, a plot map, and a warranty deed related to cemetery property.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of digital surrogates of 41 postcards (circa 1905-1916) featuring images of Beech Grove Cemetery in Muncie, Indiana and a 1906 report from the Beech Grove Cemetery Board of Trustees. Also included is an undated postcard for the Gardens of Memory cemetery. Several of the postcards were printed by the Galion View Company of Galion, Ohio, which created one of the largest series of postcards of Muncie featuring nearly one hundred views of various buildings and locations...

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The Collection contains a variety of early twentieth century publications, including Arbor Vitae, 1916; The Helicon, 1912; XYZ, 1902, 1906, 1907; The Muncie Club in Minstrelsy, 1902.

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This collection includes documents pertaining to the Delta Iota chapter of Beta Theta Pi and their pursuit toward obtaining a new fraternity house, including floorplans, budgets, and proposals.

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The collection includes materials from the professional career, organizational memberships and committees, and publications of Betty Harris. Documents here include information pertaining to local historical, religious and women’s clubs, community service involvement, and her work as a writer. Also included are Kennedy Assassination wire reports and issues of the Muncie Evening Press covering the Kennedy Assassination in 1963.

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The collection consists of materials dealing with the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), the National Organization of Women (NOW) and the League of Women Voters, including by-laws, correspondence, newsletters, and related materials for all three organizations.

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This collection contains completed survey forms and survey processing records (codebooks, cross tabulations, and frequency tables); correspondence, grant proposals, and other administrative and project planning records; newspaper clippings, research articles, and other reference material; and oral history interview audio recordings and transcripts from the Black Middletown research project ranging from 1968 to 1986.

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This collection contains copies of the Gear-O-Gram (1944-1972), a newsletter for the employees (published by the employees)of the Borg-Warner Corporation.

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This collection includes journals, notebooks, correspondence, professional records, political awards, autographs, genealogies, photographs, video recordings, scrapbooks, and realia from the Bracken family in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1776 to 2010 regarding Bracken family genealogy and Civil War history, Muncie and Delaware County history, Ball Corporation, and the Ball State University Board of Trustees.

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This collection includes a manuscript about the Bracken House on Ball State University`s campus, transcripts of interviews with Bracken family members, correspondence, and research notes from Thomas A. Sargent in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1997 to 2000 regarding the home and its inhabitants.

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The Brayton Family Collection consists primarily of family photos dating from 1868 to 1958. The oversize materials contain Amy Botkin's scrapbook, which includes letters, photos, brochures, and invitations (1907-1960), as well as sketches and paintings done by Margaret Brayton.

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This collection includes genealogy materials from the Brown-Fyfe family in Muncie, Indiana ranging from circa 1828-1990s regarding the Brown-Fyfe family lineage.

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This collection includes slides of various buildings in downtown Muncie, Indiana.

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This collection includes published reports from the Bureau of Business Research at Ball State University. Materials include serial publications from the Bureau, research reports produced by the Bureau mainly about the Muncie area's financial strengths and challenges, and research documents used by the department for their studies. Materials date from 1969-1999.

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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.

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The collection contains a 35th reunion letter from President Ronald Reagan (1986), a 50th reunion letter from President George H.W. Bush (2001), and a 50th reunion book honoring the class’s golden anniversary.

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This collection includes yearbooks from Burris Laboratory School and the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanties in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1966 to 2015.

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This collection includes papers and project files collected by C. Warren Vander Hill regarding Middletown Studies and the Middletown Film project in Muncie, Indiana from 1959 to 1990.