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615 West Main Street house collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-326
Scope and Contents This collection includes photographs, greeting cards, negatives, and newspaper clippings from the Eller family in Muncie and Anderson, Indiana ranging from the 1940s to 1990s regarding adopted pets from Anderson and Muncie animal shelters, crimes in Muncie, and family and friends photographs.The collection was found at the abandoned residence of 615 West Main Street in Muncie, Indiana. There are several photographs and documents concerning animals available for adoption....
Dates: circa 1940-1990

Abbott L. Johnson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-027
Scope and Contents

This collection includes manuscripts, photographs, maps, blueprints, line drawings, and an oral history interview recording and transcript from Abbot L. Johnson in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1941 to 1982 regarding Johnson's work in the field of aviation in Muncie and Delaware County, and his connections with the Indiana Manufacturers' Association and the National Association of Manufactuerers.

Dates: 1928-1982

Aladdin Manufacturing Company records

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS-244
Scope and Contents

This collection includes issues of the Mystic Light of the Aladdin Knights, a bimonthly newsletter for collectors of Aladdin memorabilia and the products of the Aladdin Manufacturing Company, Aladdin Electric Lamps, and Aladdin Industries/Aladdin Mantle Company as well as a 2004 Aladdin Mantle Lamp Company catalog in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1983 to 2013 regarding the lamp industry.

Dates: 1983-2013

Allen and Rita Winters family papers and photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-058
Scope and Contents

The collection consists mostly of Center High School yearbooks with World War I information and correspondence also included.

Dates: 1917-1980

Alpha Sigma Alpha Chi Chi Chapter records and scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: RG-00-05-03
Scope and Contents

This collection includes documents, events programs, photographs, composite photographs, scrapbooks, and pledge class scrapbooks and photographs produced by the Alpha Sigma Alpha Chi Chi Chapter at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana rangin from 1953-1986.

Dates: 1953-1986

Altrusa Club of Muncie, Inc. records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-054
Scope and Contents This collection includes committee records, financial records, governance documents, meeting minutes, membership records, scrapbooks, yearbooks, photographs, videos, a reel-to-reel audiotape recording, and historical records from the Altrusa Club of Muncie, Inc. in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1909 to 2016 regarding the administration of the club, and Altrusa Club activities and events.As of August 2023, this collection is being reprocessed. If you need assistance with this...
Dates: 1901 - 2016

Architecturally Historic Muncie Homes slides

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Identifier: S-250
Scope and Contents

This collection includes slides featuring architecturally unique homes in Muncie, Indiana.

Dates: undated

Association of Lifelong Learners records and photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-219
Scope and Contents

This collection includes records and photographs from Association of Lifelong Leaners ranging from 1991 to 2016 regarding administrative, committee, conference, membership, presidental and publication materials.

Dates: 1991-2016

Ball Memorial Hospital Auxiliary records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-349
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of records documenting the volunteer activities of the Ball Memorial Hospital Auxiliary between 1934 and 2012. Records include by-laws, narrative histories, Board of Directors meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, newsletters, member directories, event invitations and promotional material, and photographs.

Dates: 1934 - 2012

Ball State University Alumni papers and photographs

 Collection
Identifier: RG-09-02-06
Scope and Contents

This collection includes scrapbooks, memorabilia, photographs, postcards, and publications from the Ball State University Alumni Center located in Muncie, Indiana ranging from circa 1890 to 2009 regarding student life, athletics, fraternities and sororities, and the physical plant.

Dates: 1898-2009

Ball State University Non-Traditional Student Association records

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Identifier: RG-00-07-01
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1977-1997

Ball State University Women's Club records and scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: RG-00-04-01
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1931-2016

Beatty-Atkins-Ryan family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-345
Scope and Contents

This collection includes family genealogies, biographies, drawings of family crests, photographs, and scrapbooks from the Beatty-Atkins-Ryan family in Muncie, IN ranging from 1903 to 1985.

Dates: 1903-1957

Betty Harris papers and photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-265
Scope and Contents

The collection includes materials from the professional career, organizational memberships and committees, and publications of Betty Harris. Documents here include information pertaining to local historical, religious and women’s clubs, community service involvement, and her work as a writer. Also included are Kennedy Assassination wire reports and issues of the Muncie Evening Press covering the Kennedy Assassination in 1963.

Dates: 1834 - 2006

Black Middletown project records

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Identifier: MSC-002
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1968 - 1986

Bracken family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-344
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: circa 1776-2010

Brayton family papers and photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-239
Scope and Contents

The Brayton Family Collection consists primarily of family photos dating from 1868 to 1958. The oversize materials contain Amy Botkin's scrapbook, which includes letters, photos, brochures, and invitations (1907-1960), as well as sketches and paintings done by Margaret Brayton.

Dates: 1868 - 1960

Brown-Fyfe family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-312
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: circa 1828-1990s

Buildings in Downtown Muncie slide collection

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Identifier: S-248
Scope and Contents

This collection includes slides of various buildings in downtown Muncie, Indiana.

Dates: undated

C. Warren Vander Hill project files and papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSC-015
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.

Dates: 1924 - 1999

Calvert and Pallen family papers and photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-064
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,...
Dates: 1899-1982

Camp Isanogel records and photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-362
Scope and Contents

This collection includes reports, brochures, newspaper clippings, newsletters, scrapbooks, photographs, video recordings, and other materials from Camp Isanogel in Delaware County, Indiana ranging from 1907 to 2010 regarding camping activities and camp patrons.

Dates: 1907 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1934 - 2010

Center School historical collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-190
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1905-2008

Charles Sappenfield Papers and Records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-11-01-05
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...
Dates: 1953-1995

Charles Strait collection of electrical power company records and photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-120
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1884-1978

Colleen Club records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-159
Scope and Contents

This collection includes two scrapbooks, minutes, a membership list, and a card index of members from the Colleen Club in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1947 to 1994 regarding the club's members and activities.

Dates: 1947-1994

Community-College Auditorium Series printed ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: RG-08-08-04
Scope and Contents

This collection includes booklets, brochures, photographs, and program from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1959 to 1964 regarding the Community-College Auditorium Series held on the campus of Ball State University beginning in 1959 as well as the planning and opening of the John R. Emens College-Community Auditorium at Ball State.

Dates: 1959-1964

Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-333
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of digital reproductions of original records and born-digital records from the Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County and includes annual reports, Board of Directors meeting minutes, correspondence, event documents, news releases, photographs, newsletters, brochures, postcards, and other records ranging from circa 1981 to 2018.

Dates: 1981-2020

David and Mary Jane Sursa family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-381
Content Description

This collection includes diaries, scrapbooks, correspondence, photographs, Christmas cards, newspaper clippings, family history documents, and funeral papers from the David and Mary Jane Sursa family of Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1938 to 2018.

Dates: 1938 - 2018

David Dale family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-189
Scope and Contents

This collection includes genealogical research including research notes, family relations worksheets, and photocopies of municipal records; photocopied documents from the 1926 George R. Dale contempt of court trial include newspaper clippings, telegrams, letters, and cartoons from David Dale in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1790 to 1995 regarding David Dale`s family history.

Dates: 1790-1995