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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

Martin D. Schwartz papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS-242
Scope and Contents This collection documents the business and personal activities of Martin D. Schwartz. The business records series details Schwartz’s business activities and includes correspondence, planning documents, ledgers, meeting minutes, daily planners, and newspaper clippings spanning 1879-1993. The collection also includes a number of planning documents, correspondence, ledgers, financial planning documents and calendars, for numerous Humanities and Jewish Organizations that Mr. Schwartz...
Dates: 1879-2011

Mary Martha Club records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-005
Scope and Contents

This collection includes newspaper clippings, yearbooks, minutes, program activities, treasurer`s reports, photographs, and correspondence from the Mary Martha Club in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1881 to 1977 regarding the group and its activities.

Dates: 1891-1977

Masterworks Chorale records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-155
Scope and Contents

This collection includes concert advertisements, programs, correspondence, meeting minutes, and notes. Additionally, it includes concert performance recordings from 1984 to 2014.

Dates: 1979 - 2022-12-17; Undated

Maud Neal Doughty papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-161
Scope and Contents

This collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, obituaries, and other documents from Maud Neal Doughty in Muncie, Indiana ranging from1895 to 1995.

See container list filed within collection for item level descriptions of correspondents and photographs.

Dates: 1894-1973

McRae Club records and photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-111
Scope and Contents This collection includes annual programs (1894-2014) and meeting minutes (1904-2009). It also includes the constitution and by-laws, rosters (1918-1958), correspondence, newspaper clippings (1904-2007), and financial records (1998-2008). There are also two woodcuts of founder Emma Montgomery McRae and a written history of the organization by Mrs. J. J. Burkholder included and a program from the Woman's Franchise League, 1919. It also includes two photographs of McRae Club members (1989...
Dates: 1894-2014

Miami Indians collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-004
Scope and Contents The collection was donated by Dr. Bert Anson, a professor of history at Ball State University who wrote a history of the tribe titled, The Miami Indians (1970). Much of the collection consists of items used by Dr. Anson for research of the book and includes notes, photocopies of treaties and legal proceedings, tribal genealogies, correspondence, and other materials relating to the Miami Indian tribe.The photograph series, P.002, contains...
Dates: 1790-1971

Mildred Trivers collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-305
Scope and Contents

This collection includes personal papers, poetry, and audio and video from Mildred Raynolds Trivers in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1934 to 2000 regarding her life and career as a poet and founder of the Humpback Barn Festival of Poetry and Arts.

Dates: 1934-2000

Miriam Shepherd cookbook collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS-059
Scope and Contents

This collection includes 20 cookbooks and other books related to cooking from Miriam Shepherd's Home Economics collection. Publication dates range from 1910-1941.

Dates: 1910-1941

Muncie Art Students' League records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-099
Scope and Contents

The collection includes the historical records of Muncie Art Students' League for the years 1892-2019 and includes correspondence, by-laws, financial records, minutes, membership lists, news clippings, annual programs, scrapbooks, photographs, a video recording of a meeting of the Muncie Art Students’ League at Margaret Bumb’s House in 1990, and born-digital working files for the League.

Dates: 1892-2019

Muncie Historic Preservation and Rehabilitation Officer records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-180
Scope and Contents The collection includes newspaper clippings, reports, proposals, notes, meeting agendas, and correspondence from the Muncie Preservation and Rehabilitation Commission and the business it conducted, including the renovation and relocation of historic buildings. The records of specific initiatives the Commission has participated in are also included, including the efforts to renovate the Ball Stores Building in downtown Muncie as a City Hall, and the implementation and business of the Central...
Dates: 1977-1999

Muncie Indiana Transit System records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-238
Scope and Contents

This collection contains records from the Muncie Indiana Transit System (MITS) in Muncie, Indiana for the years 1941-2012 and included Board of Directors meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, budget information, project plans and proposals, marketing and management files, financial records, subject files, photographs, scrapbooks, and other records documenting services, routes, fares, ridership and construction primarily from 1981-2004.

Dates: 1941 - 2012; Majority of material found within 1980 - 2007

Peter Austin papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS-053
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1904-1970

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

Ralph B. Ross collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-021
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1927-1942

Reticule Club records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-203
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1912-1997

Robert Cunningham papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-271
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...
Dates: circa 1890-2005

Ryan-Stradling-Shirey-Puntenney-Tuhey families papers

 Collection
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

Sandra Barnard Marshall papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-314
Scope and Contents

This collection includes manuscripts, computer disks, notes, and correspondence from Sandra Barnard Marshall ranging from 1998 to 2009 regarding her writings, especially Life, Love, and Tragedy in a Small Town.

Dates: 1998-2009

Sarah E. McVicker correspondence and photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-276
Scope and Contents

This collection includes scans of eighteen letters written to Sarah E. McVicker Johnson by her brother, Joseph W. McVicker, and other soldiers from Delaware County during and after the Civil War (1862-1876). PSC 322 includes a scanned photograph of Sarah E. McVicker.

Dates: 1862-1875

Sneath Glass Company records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-337
Scope and Contents

This collection includes administrative records, financial records, glass formula records and other materials from The Sneath Glass Company in Hartford City, Indiana ranging from 1894 to 2000 regarding the business and production of glass, and a historical account of the company.

Dates: 1852-2000

Star Soccer Club records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-313
Scope and Contents

This collection includes documents, correspondence, Board of Director meeting minutes, maps, and newspaper clippings from the Star Soccer Club in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1991 to 2002 regarding the club`s history and activities.

Dates: 1991-2002

Temple Beth-El records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-145
Scope and Contents This collection includes bulletins (monthly newsletters), correspondence, directories, minutes, reports, audiovisual recordings, photographs, and other material from Temple Beth-El in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1922-2013 regarding the history, membership, initiatives, and governance of Temple Beth-El. It also includes a videotape of "New Horizons: Jewish Liturgical Music through the Centuries," a presentation that was part of Temple Beth-El's centennial celebration. It includes three tapes...
Dates: 1922-2019

The Man Haters collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-177
Scope and Contents This collection includes research involved in creating a video about the 1915 film, The Man Haters. It includes documents about the original cast members, the producer, the local newspaper popularity contest, working papers for the grant application, production videos, still photographs from the original film, personal photographs of the cast members, and a copy of a publication written by Nancy Turner about the project ranging from 1894 to 1997...
Dates: 1894-1997

Thomas Jefferson Bowles family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-097
Scope and Contents This collection includes notebooks, scrapbooks and other material related to the life, work, social activity, and political activity of Thomas Jefferson Bowles during his time in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1886 to 1924. The notebooks and scrapbooks in this collection contain notes and speech manuscripts documenting his involvement in the Indiana Rationalists Association, interest in the National Liberal Party, and thoughts and remarks on a wide variety of other subjects including...
Dates: 1836-1984

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

UAW-CIO, Local 499 records and photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-248
Scope and Contents

This collection includes papers, books, newsletters and newspaper clippings relating to the AFL-CIO, GM-UAW, UAW-CIO, and Local 499 in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1940-2005.

Dates: 1937 - 2005

White River Water Garden Society records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-335
Scope and Contents

This collection includes documents from The White River Water Garden Society in Muncie, Indiana ranging from July 1998 to July 2010.

Dates: 1998-2010

Wiley W. Spurgeon papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-211
Scope and Contents This collection contains articles and columns by Wiley W. Spurgeon, divided by date and also by subject (copies may be duplicated in each category), his research subject files, correspondence, and historical materials given to him from Delaware county residents. The OVB collection includes a ledger from Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, the manuscripts of stories written by Sylvester W. Heath, and maps of Muncie and Delaware County, as well as newspapers and posters. The photograph...
Dates: 1857-2001