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Beech Grove Cemetery postcards and Board of Trustees report

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Identifier: MSS-D-004
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...
Dates: circa 1905-1916

Cardinal Greenway wildflower slides

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Identifier: MSS-D-002
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of photographs of wildflowers taken by Diane E. Hill along the Cardinal Greenway between 1999 and 2005. The original 35mm photographic slides were produced between circa 1999 and 2008. Research to identify the wildflowers was conducted by Stan Hodge and is also included in the collection.

Dates: 1999-2009

Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County records

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Identifier: MSS-333
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of digital reproductions of original records and born-digital records from the Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County and includes annual reports, Board of Directors meeting minutes, correspondence, event documents, news releases, photographs, newsletters, brochures, postcards, and other records ranging from circa 1981 to 2018.

Dates: 1981-2020

Documenting Deindustrialization in Middletown: A Photographic Essay

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSC-031
Scope and Contents This collection contains a 2006 photographic essay by Steve Talley titled "Documenting Deindustrialization in Middletown: A Photographic Essay." The essay documents the changing post-industrial landscape in Muncie, including photographs of abandoned factories and plants. Also includes photographs of BorgWarner (which was still in business at the time), Ball State University, the Ball family homes, the Muncie Mall, Ball Memorial Hospital, and other various businesses and homes in the Muncie...
Dates: 2006

Dr. W. Philip Ball papers

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Identifier: MSS-213
Scope and Contents This collection includes publications, correspondence, newspaper clippings, personal papers, family papers, Muncie and Ball State University related book, medical career files, materials on Calvin Coolidge, computer files, audio recordings, video recordings, photographic materials, and inventions and other artifacts from Dr. W. Philip Ball in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1923 to 2015 regarding Dr. Ball's medical and writing careers, the Ball family, and Dr. Ball's other interests and...
Dates: 1923 - 2016

History of Beech Grove Cemetery Immersive Learning Project records

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Identifier: MSS-D-005
Scope and Contents This collection contains born-digital files created as part of an immersive learning project on the history of Beech Grove Cemetery taught by Professor Ron Morris in Spring and Fall 2015. Students enrolled in the course created a website that provides visitors to Beech Grove Cemetery with information about local persons interred in the cemetery. The students also produced a book documenting stories about people buried in the cemetery.Files include edited and unedited versions of...
Dates: 2015 - 2015

Muncie High School Consolidation Oral History Project records

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Identifier: MSS-D-003
Scope and Contents This collection contains born-digital videos and transcripts for twenty-five oral history interviews with Muncie Community Schools Board of Trustees members, community leaders, and members of the community at large about the consolidation of Muncie Southside High School and Muncie Central High School in 2014. The interviews were conducted between September 2014 and June 2015 by C. Warren Vander Hill and Rich Usdowski for the Center for Middletown Studies and highlight perceptions of the...
Dates: 2014 - 2015

Unitarian Universalist Church records

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Identifier: MSS-101
Scope and Contents

This collection includes annual reports, construction records, financial records, historical papers, minutes, membership records, scrapbooks, Sunday School records, photographs, digital photographs of the stained glass panels, oral history recordings and other material from the Unitarian Universalist Church in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1855 to 2014 regarding the administration, finances, history, membership, ministries, property and services of the church.

Dates: 1855-2014