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The collection includes records materials related to the business and activities of the East Central Neighborhood Association. Included are guides to the Old Washington Street Festival (1979 and 1980) and the festival's Walking Tour guides (1977-1986). Additionally, the collection includes papers creating the Emily Kimbrough Historic District, a study of the neighborhood, and minutes of the Board of Directors meetings from 1989 and 1990.

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This collection includes brochures, budgets, bylaws, contracts, correspondence, directories, forms, grant applications, guides, agreements, legislative records, minutes, news releases, publications, plans, and procedures from the Eastern Indiana Library Services Authority in Indiana ranging from 1973 to 1992 regarding the organization`s activities in the State of Indiana.

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This collection contains documents and photographs pertaining to the history of Eastern Indiana Normal University and founder and first president F. A. Z. Kumler and his wife Mattie Bender Kumler. Materials in this collection range in date from the 1860s to 1956. The bulk of materials pertaining to Eastern Indiana Normal University date from 1896 to 1901.

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Drawings, renderings and project manuals for ten projects by the Indianapolis architectural firm Ed Gibson and Associates, dating from the late 1960s to 1985. Renderings are by Jungclaus and by Howard Associates. Gibson’s thesis, registration certificate, business records, photographs, engraved tape measure, and personal effects were added to the collection after Gibson’s death.

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The collection includes copies of the "Elm Street Reporter" columns published in the Gaston News from 1949 to 1954.

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This collection includes news releases, photographs, playbills, and biographies from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1963 to 1975 regarding Emens Auditorium's Focus Series.

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This collection includes brochures, programs, photographs, business documents, and press releases from Ball State University Office of Business Affairs in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1964 to 2002 regarding Emens Auditorium special performances.

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The collection includes meeting minutes (1940-1951), membership and programs booklets (1945-1959), the club song and research notes by Mary Alice Lanning.

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This collection includes photographs, promotional items, press articles, and correspondence from the Europe Year Task Force committee members in Ball State and the Muncie areas ranging from 1989 to 1996 regarding all matters of the preparation and implementation of the 1991-1992 EuropeYear.

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Materials in this collection relate to Cowan High School and Muncie High School, local glass industries, and Muncie and Delaware County businesses and activities ranging from 1886-1979.

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This collection includes a history of the Parke family (1967), bills and receipts (1891-1967), postcards and advertisements (undated), newspaper clippings (1936-1965), and artifacts from the Parke and Everett families of Muncie, Indiana.

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This collection includes administrative records including constitutions and bylaws, officer records including budgets and reports, meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, membership records, committee records, newsletters and other publications, promotional material and event planning records, newspaper clippings, photographs, and artifacts from the Exchange Club of Muncie in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1921 to 2016.

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This collection includes transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by New River Media as part of the documentary The First Measured Century. The interviews discuss the significance of the Middletown Studies.

Scope and Contents The collection contains records of First Merchants Bank under its earlier name, Merchants National Bank, and under the name First Merchants Bank. The collection contains annual reports for the Merchants National Bank of Muncie (1959, 1965-1980, 1984) and a history of the bank (1803-1978) written by Phillip F. Schooley, a long time employee. The architectural drawings series includes architectural drawings of Merchants National Bank from the Jackson and Mulberry location (1929). Includes a...

Scope and Contents The collection documents Fran E. Schroeder’s architectural career. It includes architectural drawings and renderings; photographs; reference material; materials concerning the Construction Specifications Institute; business correspondence; sketches; Christmas cards by Schroeder, Leslie F. Ayres, and Pierre and Wright, ca. 1930; a variety of scrapbook materials and memorabilia; and several award plaques.The drawings are all from the office of Fran E. Schroeder and Associates. More...

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The collection includes pamphlets, clippings, and other documents related to the formation of the following local lodges: the Masons, the Knights of Pythias, the Odd Fellows, and the Redmen.

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This colleciton includes brochures, member directories, journal articles, correspondence, memoranda, mission statements, bylaws, constitutions, and other documents ranging from 1970 to 1994.

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This collection includes evaluation forms, project research, publicity documents and questionnaires from the Muncie Public Library ranging from 1981 to 1986 regarding From Distant Shores: The Heritage of Muncie's Families.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of records ranging from 1790 to 2009 documenting the personal and professional life of Dr. Gene Sharp McCreery of Harrison Township, Delaware County, Indiana. Records include personal documents (transcripts, certificates and diplomas, land deeds, membership cards, daily planners, yearbooks, greeting cards, and correspondence); international records documenting McCreery’s humanitarian work in various countries (program administrative records, foreign language study...

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This collection includes scrapbooks, correspondence, diaries, publications, newspaper clippings and speeches by Dr. Kemper from 1859-1927. The scrapbooks include information on Dr. Kemper’s travels, including trips to Egypt and Europe, from 1905 to 1913. The correspondence series includes letters between Dr. Kemper and Hattie Kemper during and after the Civil War, from 1859 to 1875.

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This collection includes documents related to Geneva Gwin’s leisure activities and Forrest Gwin’s employment at Ball Corporation in Muncie, Indiana from 1924-1970. Also included are a number of business transactions pertaining to Mr. Fred F. Crossfield, possibly Geneva Gwin’s first husband.

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The collection seems to be mostly the papers of Taylor Gibson and his work as township trustee. It includes a brief journal, a teacher's contract book and a series of warranty deeds, mortgage and marriage contracts, dated 1868-1906.

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The collection contains genealogy materials on The Golliher Family and related families, including family record sheets, census notes, obituaries, family trees, cemetery records, newspaper clippings, military documents, notes from marriage record, will books, and maps. Also contains information excerpted from county history books and other sources.

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The collection contains information on the church's renovation in 1940, a history of the parish published in 1977, copies of The Muncie Churchman news magazine from 1892 and 1896, parish lists from 1953 and 1954, and other related church materials.

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The collection consists of 27 maps that illustrate the Greenways Foundation’s interest in creating and promoting walk and bike trails in the state of Indiana.

Scope and Contents The collection includes drawings and related documents for 38 building projects in East Central Indiana, mostly in Muncie, ca. 1915-1951; also a business ledger, 1921-1963, and a few business records, 1920-1971. Nicewanner was the contractor for many or all of the buildings represented, and several were designed by him. Others whose work is represented include C. H. Houck, Macy G. Thompson, Cuno Kibele, Muncie Home Builders, Houck and Smenner, William Horatio Day (New York), Herbert F....

Scope and Contents Collection contains 6,013 architectural working drawings, specifications, a firm commission list, photographs, negatives, and microfiche/microfilm dating from 1910-1988 for numerous building projects from the architecture firm of Graham, Love and Graham Architects, Inc. and predecessor firms. The earliest works of the collection were created by Charles Hamilton as a draftsman for Houck and Smenner Architects. Several records throughout the collection are commissions by other firms....

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This collection includes photocopies Harold Anthony Niner's military records, newspaper clippings, and photographs related to his time serving in the 347th Bombardment Squadron, 99th Bombardment Group (H) of the Army Air Force.

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This collection includes six bound volumes of ornithological field notes recorded from sightings in Delaware County, Indiana, and in other areas of the country and other notes from Mr. Zimmerman.

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This collection includes correspondence, papers, manuscripts, reports, scrapbooks, statements, photographs, minutes, and other material created, collected or compiled by Helen B. Schwartz in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1933 to 2007 regarding coursework, Jewish history and studies, organizations, Temple Beth-El, philanthropy, politics, recreation, and finances.