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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 includes records, research files, audio recordings and interview transcripts from Hurley Goodall in Muncie, IN ranging from 1924 to 1978 regarding black history in Muncie, IN.

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This collection contains constitutions, budgets, reports, newspaper clippings, meeting minutes, student publications, programs, flyers, posters, scrapbooks, photographs, and other materials pertaining to the organizational history and events of the Black Student Association. These materials range in date from 1969 to 2015.

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This collection includes meeting memoranda and minutes from the Ball State University Board of Trustees Committee ranging from 1977-1993.

Scope and Contents This collection includes books produced from Rai Peterson's Manifesto Book Arts course (ENG 444) later known as the Book Arts Collaborative course (ENG 400/04). The Manifesto Book Arts course materials date from 2010-2016, and the Book Arts Collaborative course materials date from 2017-2019. The first series has multiple subseries that consist of numerous authors per year, whereas the second series only has one author per year. The third series includes creative projects created by students...

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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 photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, genealogy notes, negatives, and audio and video recordings from the Bower family of Indiana ranging from 1871 to 2001 regarding Bower and Dowell family history.

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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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This collection consists of player piano rolls and related publications produced by Duo-Art (The Aeolian Company) between 1909 and 1932. The player piano rolls and publications were originally owned by the Bracken family and were donated, along with Bracken House, to Ball State University upon the death of Rosemary Bracken in 1997.

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This collection includes planning documents, exhibit materials, publications, lectures, and newsletters from Ball State University and the Friends of the Bracken Library in Muncie, IN ranging from 1966 to 2013 regarding the Alexander M. Bracken Library.

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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 the "Breakthrough Plus 40" newsletters issues no. 1-25 ranging from 1976 through 1980. The "Breakthrough Plus 40" newsletter was released bi-monthly in Selma, Indiana, exploring the implementation of solar energy above latitude 40. These issues make up the entire body of "Breakthrough Plus 40" newsletters including issue no. 20, the special edition scrapbook. Additionally, it includes digitized copies of each newsletter.

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This collection consists of correspondence from Brian Minor to Floyd Zula from 1972-1981, correspondence from Brian Minor's mother, Nadine, as well as news clippings from 1974-1981.

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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.

Scope and Contents In this collection are the faculty papers of Bruce Geelhoed from 1980 to 2002. His papers are divided into four main sections, arranged alphabetically: Administrative Records (including Correspondence), Financial Records, Research, and Student Papers. Included are his papers on many history projects and his connections with Dutch universities. Also included are student papers and records of the Muncie Minnetrista Center. As well as his papers, this collection contains a Bruce Geelhoed...

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This collection includes cost analyses, reports, and budget summaries for Ball State University ranging from 1966-2001.

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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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This collection includes annual reports from the Ball State Teachers College Bureau of Teachers Placement ranging from 1951-1962.

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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 work reports, publications, news clippings, scrapbooks, and other records from the Burris Laboratory School in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1928 to 2001 regarding the administration of the school, student activities, and the function of the school as a part of Ball State University.

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This collection includes official financial reports submitted by the Office of Business Affairs. Materials are arranged chronologically. Duplicate copies are also available in the Board of Trustee Meeting Minutes.

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This collection contains planning documents, space studies reports, and budgetary information from Ball State's Business Affairs ranging from 1948-1994.

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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.

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The collection contains filmstrips, cassette tapes, photographs, artwork, graphs, and maps of sports and athletic activities from ancient to modern times which appear in the History of Physical Education and Sports Filmstrips.

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This collection includes teacher's guides and photo slide film strips detailing the history of Indiana from 1850-1965.