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This colleciton includes news releases, clippings, and photographs collected by the Ball State University Office of University Marketing and Communications ranging from 1955 to 1975. Additionally the collection features correspondense, donor lists, collection information, annual reports, and biennial reports created by the Ball State University Museum of Art from 1943 to 2019.

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This collection includes the NSTA awards ceremonies programs, budgets, constitution and by-laws, correspondence, executive board records, membership lists, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, scarpbooks and reports ranging from 1977 to 1997.

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This collection includes publications, agenda, minutes, program inventories, and records created in anticipation of the Ball State University academic calendar transition from quarters to semesters that was effected in the Fall of 1988.

Scope and Contents Scope and Contents: This collection contains fraternity and sorority histories, membership lists, awards and recognitions, and recruitment publications from the Office of Greek Life. Subseries 1 contains sorority and fraternity membership lists with sensitive information. Subseries 2 contains fraternity and sorority records produced and collected by the Ball State University Office of Student Affairs, Greek Life Unit from 1939 to 2000. Subseries 3 includes Panhellenic awards and recognitions...

Scope and Contents This collection contains records and documents from the National Panhellenic Council as well as Ball State University’s Panhellenic Council. Subseries 1 contains Greek Newsletters from 1990-1994. Subseries 2 contains the Panhellenic Council’s publication New Student Record from 1982-2002. Subseries 3 includes the Panhellenic Council’s publication Freshman Record from 1972-1987. Subseries 4 contains National Panhellenic Conference records from...

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This collection consists of drawings for buildings and properties belonging to Ball State University. It includes topographic maps of campus, working drawings for various buildings on campus, specifications, project manuals, and landscape plans. Also in the collection are building programs, competition announcements, records of building committee meetings, shop drawings, architectural renderings, models, and artifacts.

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This collection includes agenda, clippings, correspondence, documents, fliers, leaflets, memoranda, minutes, pamphlets, and proceedings regarding religious organizations, denominations and sects with presences on Ball State University’s campus.

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This collection includes an organizational history, financial records, newspaper clippings, newsletters, program books, minutes, agenda, correspondence, photographs, newcomers’ reports, and treasurers’ books ranging from 1931 to 2004.

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This collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and publications about the Ball Stores in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1944 to 1990 regarding the business and its activities.

Scope and Contents This collection includes production documents for many of the plays Janney produced between the 1950s and the 2000s, his personal scrapbooks, theatrical programs, photographs, audio-visual materials pertaining to his numerous productions, and a personal collection which includes an original and published script collection, and an autographed and related documents collection containing documents both from contemporary actors and actresses, as well as from famous actors from the 18th and 19th...

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This collection includes articles and clippings about Mr. Cohen, biographical material and copies of some of his speeches.

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This collection includes documents pertaining to the Delta Iota chapter of Beta Theta Pi and their pursuit toward obtaining a new fraternity house, including floorplans, budgets, and proposals.

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The collection consists of materials dealing with the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), the National Organization of Women (NOW) and the League of Women Voters, including by-laws, correspondence, newsletters, and related materials for all three organizations.

Scope and Contents The contents of this collection contain the published information concerning all activities relating to the celebration of the Bicentennial of the American Revolution in 1976. This includes a national comprehensive calendar of bicentennial events, 1975-1976; an index of activities and a master register of Bicentennial projects. Also included is a list of local committee members, correspondence of the committee, a calendar of events, recognition of historic landmarks and other material...

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This collection includes records regarding the Ball State University Bicentennial of the Constitution celebration held in 1987 at the E.B. and Bertha C. Ball Center.

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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 includes genealogy materials from the Brown-Fyfe family in Muncie, Indiana ranging from circa 1828-1990s regarding the Brown-Fyfe family lineage.

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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 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 Caldwell, Meeker, and High families papers includes correspondence from the Caldwell, Meeker, and High families. The collection is divided into series by family. The Caldwell family papers includes correspondence and documents concerning family and business affairs (1857-1928). The High family papers includes correspondence between Ansen High and his wife Mary during the Civil War (1862). The Meeker family papers includes correspondence from Minor Meeker (1836-1885).

Scope and Contents This collection contains materials pertaining to the various activities of the Calvert-Pallen family. The collection is divided into seven series, the first four of which include papers of each individual family member. The Truman B. Culvert series contains papers and books which relate to his personal and professional education and to his responsibilities as Director of Research and Budget in the Muncie Community Schools.The second series, Luna Culvert, contains yearbooks,...

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This collections includes administrative records from the Center for Middletown Studies, including annual reports, correspondence, budget and finance information, position descriptions, publications and promotional materials. The collection also includes grant and research proposals, research projects and supplementary research materials, audio and video recordings and electronic files.

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This collection includes copies of the school`s newspaper, the Center Chatter, from 1930-1963; the school`s yearbook, Memoria, from 1963-1966; personal memorabilia from graduates; and copies of the 1999 Indiana Heritage Research grant application that made this collection possible.

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This collection includes project documentation and digital files from the Changing Gears: End of an Era documentary film regarding the closing of the Warner Gear plant in 2009.

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This collection includes Charles Andrews' Military Record and Report of Separation (1947) and chapter 4 of his memoir, entitled "Combat: Our First Combat Missions".

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This collection includes the photocopied diary of Charles Dyas from 1944. It details the flights missions that he participated in across Europe during World War II.

Scope and Contents The collection includes architectural drawings and project files of architectural projects by Charles M. Sappenfield, Architect and the firm Sappenfield, Wiegman, Hall Associates, from 1948 to 1994. The Sappenfield, Wiegman, Hall Associates partnership was formed in 1966 and dissolved in 1968. The records primarily date from 1961-1965 when Sappenfield lived and practiced architecture in Asheville, North Carolina, before his move to Muncie to become dean of the College of Architecture and...

Scope and Contents This collection includes the papers and records of Charles M. Sappenfield, who served as Ball State University’s Dean of the College of Architecture and Planning from 1965 to 1981 and then as a professor until 1994.Series 1: Charles Sappenfield Personal Correspondence and Research Files, 1963-1995. This series is comprised of Sappenfield's personal papers and includes reccomendation correspondence and career posting inqueries. Series 2: College of Architecture and...

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This collection contains various documents, maps, photographs, and negatives pertinent to American Gas & Electric Company and the Indiana General Service Company from 1884 to 1978.

Scope and Contents The collection contains correspondence with colleagues in the Indiana General Assembly from roughly 1969 to 1975. Individual bills that Wise addressed as a Congressman contain commentary from constituents and other legislators in separate folders. A detailed file of Wise’s struggle to ban phosphates from laundry detergent is within the collection. Wise was also a member of the Committee on Cities and Towns in the General Assembly and the Governor’s Task Force for the Employment of the...