Scope and Contents

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.

Scope and Contents

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.

Scope and Contents

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

This collection contains transcripts and other materials related to the Indiana Oral History Project ranging from 1969 to 1981.

Scope and Contents

This collection includes copies letters and other documents related to Helen and Robert Lynd and their study of Muncie, Indiana as Middletown in the 1920s. Many of the documents are copied from the Helen Lynd Papers in the Sarah Lawrence College Archives and the John D. Rockefeller Archive.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains documents written by and by Lynn Perrigo and his critique of Middletown from 1921 to 1992.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains articles and reviews from several authors around the country ranging from 1929 to the present regarding the various Middletown Studies.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains papers from the 1978 American Sociological Association Meetings in San Francisco that deal with the Middletown III project.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains documents used to compile a comprehensive bibliography of publications related to the Middletown studies from 1929 to 1990.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the original taped interviews, notes, and tape logs from the oral history interviews conducted by Ball State University students. These are organized in order by the sections discussed in the book, "Getting A Living", "Making a Home", "Training the Young", "Using Leisure", "Engaging in Religious Practice", and "Engaging in Community Activities". Scrapbooks and scans of the scrapbooks documenting the project and public presentations are also included.R...