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This collection consists of Ned Griner’s research materials for his book, Gas Boom Society. The bulk of the files are copies of news clippings from the late 1800s on a variety of topics. The majority of the clippings are from Muncie newspapers. Also included in the collection are correspondence from Marsh/Ryan family members to Griner and correspondence from Emily Kimbrough to Griner. There are two rough drafts of chapters from the book on Sports and the Holidays.

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This collection includes budgets, appropriations, reports, proceedings, and ordinances from Norbert W. Hart in Muncie, Indiana ranging from circa 1950 to 1960 regarding his position, the Auditor of Muncie.

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This collection includes official weather observers records from Veral D. Merrick in Muncie, Indiana ranging from December 1949 to May 1955 regarding the weather of Muncie, Indiana.

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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.

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This collection includes a landscape painting by Oscar Pickett.

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This collection includes the minutes and agendas for Partners in Education Taskforce meetings, along relevant documents from the Taskforce secretary, from 1987-1988. Also included are reports, newsletters and brochures from Indiana Partners of Education (1966).

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This collection contains newspaper clippings and publications, as well as handwritten notes, collected by local area resident Patricia Taylor, relating to events, people and activities in east central Indiana, Ball State University, wars, history and presidents.

See also PSC 243 for photographs.

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This collection includes correspondence and postcards between Paul Zedekar and numerous family members and acquiatances. Some correspondence include newspaper clippings, High Street Methodist Church programs, photographs, stamps, and fabric samples. Ranging from 1959-1987 the correspondence document his service in the Chanute, Illinois Air Force base and Minot, North Dakota Air Force base.

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This collection includes slides of people in downtown Muncie, Indiana.

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This collection includes supply lists and catalogs for electrical supplies, hardware and industrial merchandise (1900-1945), subject files on Muncie organizations such as the Masons and the Elks Lodge, newspapers from World War II, and maps of Muncie and the vicinity.

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This collection includes correspondence, diary entries, military and genealogical records, and photographs from Philander Smith in Greenfield, Indiana ranging from 1863 to 1866 regarding his personal papers and records.

Scope and Contents The collection includes the Philomathean Club’s yearbooks from 1911 through 2004, each one of which lists club members, planned programs, and other club information for the year; meeting minute books from 1935 through 2009; the club’s constitution and by-laws; tributes to deceased members; news clippings, and correspondence. Also included is a sample of the cloth yearbook cover sewn by each member and the pattern and instructions for making the cover. Artifacts include a banner presented...

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This collection includes slides of Muncie postcards.

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...

Scope and Contents This collection includes programs, curricula, articles, worksheets, books, posters, and other materials collected by Donna Bookout in Delaware County, Indiana ranging from 1965 to 2012 regarding sex education and family planning education. Includes educational materials on the subjects of abstinence, contraception, fetus and infant development, sexual assault, teen pregnancy, etc. Also includes books kept in Planned Parenthood of East Central Indiana's library as well as programs and...

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This collection includes copies of Prime Years and Savvy magazine ranging from 1990 to 2008 regarding senior citizens of Delaware and Madison County, Indiana.

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The collection contains meeting minutes (1945-76), treasurer's reports (1981-91), annual financial statements (1959-91), board minutes (1986-91), brochures (1989), membership applicants (1970-91), officer rosters (1945-85), a petition to amend the charter (1982), guestbooks (1972-90), the CPS Award Indiana Division (1960-64), a scrapbook (1968-90), and information on disbandment (1991).

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The collection contains 1118 letters of correspondence dating between the years 1820-1982. Postcards dating from 1876-1988 are also included. Fifty-nine of the postcards contain writing and dates, six have writing and no dates, and 163 have no writing at all. The collection also includes 23 greeting cards, legal papers, tax receipts, birth certificates, inventories, advertisements, etchings and various miscellaneous items dating from 1776 through the 1980s.

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The content of this collection consists of the writings of Ralph B. Ross from the late 1920s through the early 1940s. They are letters to his mother Bessie L. Ross, undated journal entries, journal entries about specific topics and trips, and other titled essays.

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This collection consists of minutes of meetings, 1984-1997; newsletters, Heart Links, 1983-1997, minutes of board of directors’ meetings, financial records, correspondence and some membership lists.

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This collection includes the consitution and by-laws, correspondence, financial information, minutes, speeches, yearbooks, and scrapbooks from the Reticule Club ranging from 1912 to 1997 regarding the club and its activities.

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The collection contains newsletters published by the Retired Senior Volunteer Program of Delaware County.

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This collection includes a published term anouncement from the Muncie Academy dated 1864-11-14 and a biography of Rev. James S. Ferris from the Muncie Morning Star dated 1916-06-05.

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The collection includes all of Richard A. "Dick" Greene's "Our Neighborhood" newspaper articles, which appeared in the Muncie Star from 1945 to 1983. It also contains history files of items sent to Greene while he worked at the Muncie Star. Finally, there is a personal file with Greene's biographical information.

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The collections includes a project syllabus, newspaper clippings, working papers, a general history, lists of residents in Riverside and Normal City, plat map, notice of incorporation, and address cards dating from 1977.

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The collection contains detailed reports on community, social clubs, businesses, transportation, architecture, population, public utilities, laws, neighborhoods, and houses in Riverside City and Normal City.

Scope and Contents The collection includes material pertaining to the club's activities and involvement with the Muncie community. Letters, treasurer's reports, news clippings, photographs, and pamphlets provide information about the club from the date of its founding in 1902 through 1975. Certificates, such as those for community improvement and for support of the General Federation of Women's Clubs' CARE program, indicate some of the club's civic contributions. Financial statements and records, as well as...

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This collection includes directories, scrapbooks, building plans, postcards, publications, certificates, news clippings, programs, photographs, artifacts, audio recordings, and video recordings from Riverside United Methodist Church in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1902 to 2003 regarding the church's history, the congregation, and church activities and events.

Scope and Contents The Robert Cunningham papers consists of records documenting the personal and professional life of Robert G. Cunningham, Sr. of Muncie, Indiana ranging from circa 1890-2005. Materials in this collection include records from the City of Muncie Office of the Mayor created during Cunningham's tenure as mayor, political campaign materials, local newspaper clippings, scrapbooks from Cunningham's political and personal life, original and printed cartoons drawn by Cunningham, and local history...

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The collection includes the Robert D. Snider's papers including his daybooks, correspondence, memos, and records. Proceedings of the Indiana State Masonry conferences (1960-1978), yearbooks (1970-1982) and the constitution and by-laws of the Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen-Local 19 of Indiana of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen AFL-CIO Jurisdiction are also included.