Scope and Contents Mary Alice and Don Lanning are dedicated scouters. A personal interest in Boy and Girl Scouts of America lead to collecting a number of items related to scouting. Mrs. Lanning collected and organized her own personal materials from her time as a Girl Scout. Similarly, Mr. Lanning kept his own personal materials from his time as a scout leader. In addition, the couple also collected a number of articles and books relating to scouting as well as personal friends memorabilia from thier time...

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This collection includes newspaper clippings, yearbooks, minutes, program activities, treasurer`s reports, photographs, and correspondence from the Mary Martha Club in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1881 to 1977 regarding the group and its activities.

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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.

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This collection includes correspondence, business records, family genealogical papers, product blueprints and drawings, trade publications, and other materials from the McCormick Brothers Company in Albany, Indiana ranging from 1819 to 1990 regarding company history and business transactions, and McCormick family history, photographs and negatives. These records and graphic materials were used for Griner's book The McCormicks of Albany.

Scope and Contents This collection includes annual programs (1894-2014) and meeting minutes (1904-2009). It also includes the constitution and by-laws, rosters (1918-1958), correspondence, newspaper clippings (1904-2007), and financial records (1998-2008). There are also two woodcuts of founder Emma Montgomery McRae and a written history of the organization by Mrs. J. J. Burkholder included and a program from the Woman's Franchise League, 1919. It also includes two photographs of McRae Club members (1989...

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This collection includes annual reports, grants records, newspaper clippings, newsletters, artifacts, certificates, scrapbooks, photographs, negatives, slides, an audio tape, and a video recording from Meridian Services, Inc. in Delaware, Henry, and Jay counties, Indiana ranging from 1961-2006 regarding the history and administration of the mental health center.

Scope and Contents The collection was donated by Dr. Bert Anson, a professor of history at Ball State University who wrote a history of the tribe titled, The Miami Indians (1970). Much of the collection consists of items used by Dr. Anson for research of the book and includes notes, photocopies of treaties and legal proceedings, tribal genealogies, correspondence, and other materials relating to the Miami Indian tribe.The photograph series, P.002, contains...

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 20 cookbooks and other books related to cooking from Miriam Shepherd's Home Economics collection. Publication dates range from 1910-1941.

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This collection includes newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, promotional materials, and digital records from Motivate Our Minds, Inc. in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1987 to 2016.

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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.

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This collection consists of programs, registration material, newspapers clippings, and correspondence relating to the reunions.

Scope and Contents The collection includes newspaper clippings, reports, proposals, notes, meeting agendas, and correspondence from the Muncie Preservation and Rehabilitation Commission and the business it conducted, including the renovation and relocation of historic buildings. The records of specific initiatives the Commission has participated in are also included, including the efforts to renovate the Ball Stores Building in downtown Muncie as a City Hall, and the implementation and business of the Central...

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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.

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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.

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This collection includes taped interviews, metadata forms, and photographs from several Ball State University EDFON 420 classes in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 2007 to 2009.

Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of programs and related material (1950-current) and program records (1948-1992). It also contains publications of the Civic Music Association, a Record Book of Muncie Civic and College Symphony association (1949-1962), board meeting and minutes (1961-1970), programs, repertoires (1949-50/1981-82), programs from national, out-of-state performances, schedules (1968-86), information on a Psi Iota Xi Pops Concert, newsletters (1978-current), a 25-year brief...

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The collection of family history contains correspondence, genealogies from several lines, a scrapbook from the Daughters of the American Revolution, and war records. The information covers 1816 to 1963. P.001 includes photographic prints organized by family or individual photographed and described at the folder level. Tintypes and one daguerreotype are included in a separate box for preservation purposes.

Scope and Contents The collection was compiled by the Historic Preservation Officer, City of Muncie, and contains 36 CFR 800.11 (e) documentation including a project description, photographs, maps, housing designs, and determination of eligibility, among other information. This collection also contains a Section 106 review that shows historical information about the site including historic photographs. Photographs include the interior and exterior views of the housing project as of 2001. Scrapbook clippings...

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The Naomi G. Weber scrapbook contains photographs, ephemera, correspondence, and clippings regarding her nursing education from the Ball Memorial Hospital School of Nursing from 1950 to 1954.

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This collection consists of Ned Griner’s research materials for his book, Gas Boom Society. The bulk of the files are copies of news clippings from the late 1800s on a variety of topics. The majority of the clippings are from Muncie newspapers. Also included in the collection are correspondence from Marsh/Ryan family members to Griner and correspondence from Emily Kimbrough to Griner. There are two rough drafts of chapters from the book on Sports and the Holidays.

Scope and Contents The No Bar & Grill and Bob Chaos Records Collection is mostly a digital collection comprised of: electronic records consisting of flyers and advertisements for, press clippings about, and photos and videos of performances at, the No Bar and Grill (1985-1988), an all-ages nightclub with no bar and no grill located in the Village, just off the Ball State University campus in Muncie, IN; electronic records consisting of flyers and advertising for, press clippings about, and photos of Repeat...

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This collection includes brochures, handbooks, publications, newsclippings, administrative records, photographs, advertisements, and audiovisual materials from the Ball State Office of Housing and Residence Life ranging from 1948-2011. Records from the Elliott Hall Council covering the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 academic years were added later.

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This collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, teacher's contracts, financial records, photographs, and other records for the Osborn and Bussell families of Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1922-1992.

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This collection contains photographs and negatives from Paula Sampson's teaching career at Ball State University. The collection also contains videos of various fashion shows developed by the fashion and merchandising classes.

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This collection includes slides of people in downtown Muncie, Indiana.

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This collection includes programs of musical performances by the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity held at Ball State University, newspaper clippings regarding the fraternity, photographs, and composite photographs.

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This collection includes business records, photographs, documents, and scrapbooks from the Ball State University Theta Sigma Chapter of Phi Upsilon Omicron Honorary Society in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1941 to 1983 regarding Theta Sigma Chapter of Phi Upsilon Omicron.

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This collection includes correspondence, diary entries, military and genealogical records, and photographs from Philander Smith in Greenfield, Indiana ranging from 1863 to 1866 regarding his personal papers and records.

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Many of these images are digitized and accessible through the Digital Media Repository. (Click digital object link in red box to access.)