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Dorothy B. Wimmer papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG-22-09-01
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a notebook from the 1940s created in fulfillment of requirements for the Ball Memorial Hospital School of Nursing located in Muncie, Indiana. It also contains notebooks from her refresher courses and from her job as a Dental assistant in addition to journal articles and materials regarding the medical field.

Dates: 1940s-1980s

Dr. Charles Alvey papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-204
Scope and Contents

This collection includes documentation of Dr. Alvey’s involvement in the YMCA Bible Study Program, Muncie Central High School, Ball State University, the city of Muncie, Indiana, and Hazelwood Christian Church from Dr. Charles Alvey in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1907 to 1978 regarding his affiliations and activities.

Dates: 1907-1978

Dr. Edward Strother theater history collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-290
Scope and Contents This collection includes newspaper clippings and publications pertaining to Theater in Muncie, Indiana from 1800-1963. It clippings on the Wysor Grand Opera House, The High Street Theatre, Circuses, Walling Hall, Indiana theater, and information about Muncie’s early history. PSC 339 includes photos and negatives of actors, theaters, and Muncie, Indiana. The photographs and negatives of actors were primarily made from photographing books, including A Pictorial History of...
Dates: 1800 - 1963

Dwight Hoover manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-195
Scope and Contents

This collection includes two versions of Automobility in Muncie. The difference between the two lies in the order of the final three chapters. In addition, the collection contains an extra copy of the last three chapters of the second version; the pagination indicates that these chapters do not belong to the first version. The collection also includes a copy of Dr. Hoover`s curriculum vita updated to 1996.

Dates: 1993-1996

East Central Neighborhood Association records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-079
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1977 - 1990

Eastern Indiana Normal University records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA-053
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: circa 1860s-1956

Emens Auditorium Focus Series programs and press releases

 Collection
Identifier: RG-08-08-08
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1963-1978

Emens Auditorium records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-08-08-06
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1968-2002

Epsilon Sigma Omicron records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-233
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1940-2003

Erdogan Kumcu Europe Year Task Force records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-04-01-36
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1991-1992

Ernest Parkison education collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-031
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1886-1979

Everett and Parke families papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-007
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1891 - 1972

Exchange Club of Muncie records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-289
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1921-2007, 2016

First Measured Century oral history transcripts

 Collection
Identifier: MSC-010
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.

Dates: 2000

Fraternal Orders collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-010
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1846-1976

Friends of the Ball State University Museum of Art records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-21-05-04
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1970-1994

From Distant Shores: The Heritage of Muncie's Families research files

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-241
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1981-1988

Gene McCreery collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-303
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...
Dates: 1790-2009

General William Harrison Kemper papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-020
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1859-1927

Geneva Gwin papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-060
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1924-1970

H. Kay Nicewanner Architectural Records Collection

 Collection
Identifier: DADA-011
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....
Dates: ca. 1915-1971

Harold Zimmerman ornithology collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-057
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1921-1978

Helen B. Schwartz papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-266
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1933 - 2007

Herbert L. Garrard papers and photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-073
Scope and Contents The collection contains brochures, programs, postcards, and publications from 1879 to 1955. Included among these are commencement programs for Muncie and Royerton High Schools, Royerton High School play programs, the Hamilton Township area, a brochure for the Farmers' Institute (1894), a funeral notice, and a copy of the book entitled, Through the Years: A History of Gaston. P.023 contains photographs of the Garrard family, Garrard School, which...
Dates: 1879-1955

Hillcroft Services Incorporated records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-186
Scope and Contents

This collection mainly contains Board of Directors minutes, pamphlets, correspondence, newspaper clippings, newsletters, scrapbooks, and policies. Additional photos, negatives, film, and display boards are included in related collections listed in this finding aid.

Dates: 1952-2009

Indian Reserves collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-011
Scope and Contents

This collection includes an article by Dolores M. Lahrman and Ross S. Johnson describing Indian landholdings in Delaware County and subsequent claims filed in regard to sale of those lands. It also provides an overview for the rest of the collection, which consists primarily of supporting documentation in the form of photocopies of records held at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, DC.

Dates: 1832-1975

Indiana Bridge Company Architectural Records Collection

 Collection
Identifier: DADA-020
Scope and Contents This collection contains records of the Indiana Bridge Company, iron and steel fabricators located in Muncie, Indiana. It covers the time period 1886 to approximately 1978. The bulk of the collection consists of shop drawings created by Indiana Bridge Company engineers and drafters for several thousand structures dating from about 1889 to about 1922 (catalog number 20-9). There are 200 rolls of drawings in the collection, covering Indiana Bridge Company contract numbers 222...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1889 - 1922; 1866-ca.1978

Indiana Bridge Company records

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS-092
Scope and Contents

This collection includes publications, newspaper clippings, and ledgers from the Indiana Bridge Company in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1903 to 1981 regarding the business and the steel industry.

Dates: 1903-1981

Indiana Flour and Feed Company records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-143
Scope and Contents

This collection includes articles of incorporation and board of directors minutes for the Indiana Flour and Feed Company from 1918-1952.

Dates: 1918-1952

Indiana Oral History Project transcripts and indexes

 Collection
Identifier: MSC-008
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1969 - 1980