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The collection includes three issues of the Oracle, the yearbook of Burris Laboratory School in Muncie, Indiana (1937-1969). It also includes 12 printed legal briefs of Appellate and Supreme Court of Indiana, involving Mr. Hanley's law firm, Bracken, DeFur, Voran and Hanley. Also includes eight photographs, including photographs of Hanley and John F. Kennedy on Kennedy's visit to Muncie.

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The collection contains meeting minutes (1904-1976), programs (1905-1978), and a scrapbook of activities (1935-1937).

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...

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This collection contains video oral history interviews conducted by Ball State University students for the Martin Luther King Dream Team Freedom Bus Virginia Ball Center immersive learning project between 2014 and 2015.

Scope and Contents Mary Alice and Don Lanning are dedicated scouters. A personal interest in Boy and Girl Scouts of America lead to collecting a number of items related to scouting. Mrs. Lanning collected and organized her own personal materials from her time as a Girl Scout. Similarly, Mr. Lanning kept his own personal materials from his time as a scout leader. In addition, the couple also collected a number of articles and books relating to scouting as well as personal friends memorabilia from thier time...

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This collection includes correspondence, papers, records, newsletters, bulletins and newspaper clippings related to Mary Elizabeth Wood’s personal life and teaching career in Muncie Indiana, Washington Court House Ohio, France and Mexico from 1840 to 2002.

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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.

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This collection contains a genealogy compiled by Mary Young.

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The Masonic Temple Slides collection includes 93 glass lantern slides illustrating Biblical events from the Old Testament. The number following the title of the slide is the original numbering system for the slides.

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This collection includes concert advertisements (1991-1995), programs (1991-1995), correspondence (1992-1995), meeting minutes (1979-1995) and notes (1994-1995). Also includes event programs from 2014 to 2016.

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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.

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This collection includes subject files, calendars, newsletters, other publications, maps, photographs, an audio recording, and a video recording from Mayor Paul J. Cooley in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1883 to 1995 regarding Cooley's mayoral administration, and Cooley's other political and professional activities.

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This collection includes ledgers, books, correspondence, photographs, negatives, scrapbooks, legal records, and promotional material from the McCarty Wholesale Lumber Company in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1933 to 2011 regarding business accounts, advertising, travel expenses, company history, inventories, project bids, architectural plans, and the lumber industry.

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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.

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The collection contains photocopies of correspondence, invoices, letters, and telegrams related primarily to fruit jar manufacturing and sales companies, Indiana glass companies, and companies that bought fruit jars from the McKell and Company between 1910 and 1917. Folders are listed alphabetically by company and chronologically by year respectively.

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...

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This collection includes annual reports, grants records, newspaper clippings, newsletters, artifacts, certificates, scrapbooks, photographs, negatives, slides, an audio tape, and a video recording from Meridian Services, Inc. in Delaware, Henry, and Jay counties, Indiana ranging from 1961-2006 regarding the history and administration of the mental health center.

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...

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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.

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The collection contains a variety of documents used in the trial. Some were entered as evidence while others were entered as evidence in other lawsuits. Most of the documents pertain to research on the connection between smoking and cancer and to what tobacco companies knew about that connection. In addition, the collection contains a number of articles from the Ball State Daily News that covered the trial.

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This collection includes the diaries of Mina McCormick Beckett in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1933 to 1962 regarding activities in Muncie and Mrs. Beckett`s personal thoughts.

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

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This collection includes newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, promotional materials, and digital records from Motivate Our Minds, Inc. in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1987 to 2016.

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This collection contains church records, bulletins, photographs, and other related materials for churches in Muncie, Indiana and Delaware County, Indiana from 1836 to 2011.

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This collection includes telephone directories from AT&T Yellow Pages, Central Union, Indiana Bell, McLeodUSA, Rutter, SBC, and Yellow Book USA for Muncie, Indiana and surrounding areas ranging from 1946 to 2015. These telephone directories document personal, listed telephone numbers as well as information on local businesses.

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The collection contains correspondence, meeting agendas, lists of board members, board minutes, treasurer's report, committee records, exhibition programs, and other records of the Muncie Art Association ranging from 1907 through 1976.

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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.

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This collection consists of a series of monographs on manufacturers, utility companies, and local life in Muncie, Indiana. The monographs were published between 1938 and 1939 by the Muncie Board of Education for use in junior high schools.

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This collection includes ledgers and handbooks from the Board of Works in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1907 to 1978 regarding public works in Muncie.

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This collection includes newspaper clippings, student papers and other documents related to buildings, homes, and streets in downtown Muncie, Indiana. Several neighboring communities are also included.