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This collection contains completed survey forms and survey processing records (codebooks, cross tabulations, and frequency tables); correspondence, grant proposals, and other administrative and project planning records; newspaper clippings, research articles, and other reference material; and oral history interview audio recordings and transcripts from the Black Middletown research project ranging from 1968 to 1986.

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This collection includes journals, notebooks, correspondence, professional records, political awards, autographs, genealogies, photographs, video recordings, scrapbooks, and realia from the Bracken family in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1776 to 2010 regarding Bracken family genealogy and Civil War history, Muncie and Delaware County history, Ball Corporation, and the Ball State University Board of Trustees.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of records and photographs from the Delaware County Historical Society (previously, Delaware County Historical Alliance) in Muncie, Indiana ranging from circa 1920s to 2017. Records include Board of Directors meeting minutes, bylaws, correspondence, financial statements, mission statements and policy documents, membership listings, newsletters, informational pamphlets, and calendars. Photographs include images of historic homes and other buildings in Delaware County...

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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.

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...

Scope and Contents The J. Paul Mitchell Collection includes research pertaining to various projects including the publication “A History of Negroes in Muncie,” containing oral history interviews, correspondence, census information, the Delaware-Muncie Planning Commission, AntiPoverty Corporation, and other community outreach groups.Only a limited amount of the collection is devoted to Mitchell’s own work as a professor for Ball State. Examination books and essays are included, but the bulk of the...

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This collection includes a newspaper article, an honorary degree, family reunion invitations, and photographs from the family of L.A. Pittenger in Muncie, Indiana ranging from circa 1890 to 1965.

Scope and Contents This collection contains records from the Middletown III research project ranging from 1890 to 1996 and includes correspondence, grant proposals, project planning and procedural records, articles and publications, unpublished manuscripts, questionnaire survey forms, codebooks, cross tabulations, frequency charts, transferences, interview transcripts and notes, reference material, photographs, and video recordings. The collection primarily consists of records generated during the course of...

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This collection includes newspapers, photographs, and other records ranging from 1961 to 1983 for the weekly newspapers The Muncie Weekly News (1975-1982) and the Delaware County Sports Times (1982). Both newspapers were published by Joe E. Manfield in Muncie, Indiana under the corporate name Jem-Sue Publications, Inc.

Scope and Contents This collection includes the newspaper archives from the Muncie Star Press ranging from the early 1960s to the late 1990s. "Series 1: Biographical files" includes articles on Muncie and Delaware County persons as well as famous peronalities, musicians, actors, politicians, etc. "Series 2: Obituary files" contains obituaries for Muncie citizens and former citizens. "Series 3: Subject files" contains clippings pertinent to an array of...

Scope and Contents This collection includes records of the UAW-CIO, Local 287 and national UAW publications. The Local 287 records include the original charter (1936), agreements between UAW-CIO Local 287 and BorgWarner (1938-1986), constitution and by-laws (1942-1986), brochures related to pensions and benefits (1961-1980), a history of the Local (1978), minutes (1937-1985), and the Labor Beacon newspaper (1952-2000). The national records include proceedings from national conventions, reports from UAW...