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Eastern Communication Association records

 Collection
Identifier: SPEC-098
Scope and Contents This collection consists of records for the Eastern Communication Association ranging from 1910 to 2010. These records include constitutions, by-laws, correspondence, and other administrative records; Executive Council and committee records; officer and membership records; convention planning records; financial records; organizational newsletters, periodicals, and other publications; photographs; audio and video recordings; and other records documenting the professional and administrative...
Dates: 1910 - 2010

Frank A. Bracken Civil War collection

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Identifier: SPEC-094
Scope and Contents The contents of the Frank A. Bracken Civil War collection reflects Frank Bracken's lifetime passion for history as well as a personal and professional commitment to preserving the past. The collection consists of Civil War research papers and organizational records, photographs, maps, plaques, and realia including Civil War weapons and uniforms. Frank Bracken's great-grandfather, William Holsworth Bracken, was 1st Lieutenant of the Indiana Calvary, Union Company B, 4th Regiment and many of...
Dates: 1860-2006

H. Earl Browning family papers and photographs

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Identifier: MSS-147
Scope and Contents

This collection includes the papers, photographs and negatives from the H. Earl Browning family in Muncie, IN ranging from 1920 to 1976 regarding family correspondence, war records, financial records, personal documents, photographs and negatives.

Dates: 1920-1976

Indiana Renaissance Fair records and photographs

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Identifier: MSS-157
Scope and Contents The collection consists of a wide range of materials and includes programs, evaluations, applications, budget information, sketches, news clippings, and many other items of the Renaissance Fair Committee. The collection concentrates on the 1978, 1979, and 1980 fairs, but also includes other materials through 1986. This collection was donated by Patricia Schaefer, who served as general chairwoman for the first two fairs, and Cassie Bolander.A separate photograph series contains...
Dates: 1978-1986

Jay C. Bixby Architectural Records Collection

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Identifier: DADA-023
Scope and Contents Collection contains architectural and business records from the architectural office in Vincennes, Indiana, begun by John B. Bayard and continued by Rudolph W. Schucker and Jay C. Bixby, ca. 1910-1965. Included are architectural working drawings by the firm for 15 projects in southwestern Indiana (in Knox, Davies, Sullivan, Spencer, and Greene Counties). At least 17 additional projects are represented by specifications, photographs, newspaper clippings, contracts, and bills for architectural...
Dates: 1910 - 1965

John Nelson Bell papers

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Identifier: MSS-100
Scope and Contents

This collection is divided into three series: account books, which contains Dr. Bell’s financial dealings, including payment from patients and money paid out for supplies; daybooks, which gives names of patients, reason for doctor's visit and charge for services; PSC.113 contains two picture postcards, one of Dr. Bell and one of Dr. Bell and his daughter.

Dates: 1887-1922

Kibele and Garrard Architectural Records Collection

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Identifier: DADA-007
Scope and Contents This large and comprehensive collection is from the architectural firm founded by Cuno Kibele in Bluffton, Indiana, which Kibele moved to Muncie and which continued in Muncie under the names Kibele and Garrard, Garrard and Keely, and C. W. Garrard. The collection contains drawings for hundreds of buildings designed by the firm, most of them located in the east central and northeast parts of the state. The great majority of buildings designed by this prolific and locally...
Dates: 1891 - 1975

McCarty Wholesale Lumber Company, Inc. records

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Identifier: MSS-341
Scope and Contents

This collection includes ledgers, books, correspondence, photographs, negatives, scrapbooks, legal records, and promotional material from the McCarty Wholesale Lumber Company in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1933 to 2011 regarding business accounts, advertising, travel expenses, company history, inventories, project bids, architectural plans, and the lumber industry.

Dates: 1933-2011

Muncie Art Students' League records

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Identifier: MSS-099
Scope and Contents

The collection includes the historical records of Muncie Art Students' League for the years 1892-2019 and includes correspondence, by-laws, financial records, minutes, membership lists, news clippings, annual programs, scrapbooks, photographs, a video recording of a meeting of the Muncie Art Students’ League at Margaret Bumb’s House in 1990, and born-digital working files for the League.

Dates: 1892-2019

Muncie Indiana Transit System records

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Identifier: MSS-238
Scope and Contents

This collection contains records from the Muncie Indiana Transit System (MITS) in Muncie, Indiana for the years 1941-2012 and included Board of Directors meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, budget information, project plans and proposals, marketing and management files, financial records, subject files, photographs, scrapbooks, and other records documenting services, routes, fares, ridership and construction primarily from 1981-2004.

Dates: 1941 - 2012; Majority of material found within 1980 - 2007

Muncie Mission Auxiliary records and photographs

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Identifier: MSS-118
Scope and Contents

This collection includes annual reports, bank statements, financial records, minutes, newsletters, and scrapbooks from the Muncie Mission Auxiliary and the Women’s Auxiliary of the Muncie Mission from 1952-1992. It also has some membership cards and rules and bylaws. It also includes photographs of Auxiliary members.

Dates: 1937-1992

Riverside Culture Club records

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Identifier: MSS-062
Scope and Contents The collection includes material pertaining to the club's activities and involvement with the Muncie community. Letters, treasurer's reports, news clippings, photographs, and pamphlets provide information about the club from the date of its founding in 1902 through 1975. Certificates, such as those for community improvement and for support of the General Federation of Women's Clubs' CARE program, indicate some of the club's civic contributions. Financial statements and records, as well as...
Dates: 1907-1975

S. E. Arvin and Sons Records Collection

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Identifier: DADA-049
Scope and Contents This collection includes business records, financial records, architectural plans, plat maps, and photographs from S. E. Arvin and Sons in Indianapolis, Indiana, ranging from 1947 to 1952 regarding residential architecture built by the company, with particular emphasis on the Arlington Woods subdivision. There are a few personal papers consisting of household purchase receipts, most notably routine purchases from Block's and L. S. Ayres' department stores and purchases related to Mary...
Dates: 1940 - 1953

Society of Indiana Archivists records

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Identifier: SPEC-063
Scope and Contents

This collection includes constitutions, by-laws, articles of incorporation, correspondence, newsletters and other publications, meeting and workshop records, Board of Trustees minutes and Board and Committee records from the Society of Indiana Archivists ranging from 1972 to 2020 documenting the activities of the organization.

Dates: 1972 - 2020

Stefan S. Anderson papers

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Identifier: MSS-350
Scope and Contents This collection consists of records documenting Stefan S. Anderson's professional career with First Merchants Bank (previously Merchants National Bank) and the Delaware Advancement Corporation and includes annual reports, correspondence, meeting records, strategic planning and legal documents, press releases, publications, newspaper clippings, photographs, video recordings, and other records ranging from 1914 to 2015. The collection also includes historical records predating Anderson's...
Dates: 1914 - 2021

Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) Muncie records and photographs

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Identifier: MSS-106
Scope and Contents

This collection includes minutes, reports, constitutions, contracts, correspondence, financial records, historical manuscripts, newspaper clippings, membership records, office diaries, Phyllis Wheatley Branch records, subject files, scrapbooks, and other materials from the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1911 to 2013 regarding the administration of the YWCA, YWCA events and activities, and social issues addressed by the YWCA.

Dates: 1911-2013