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Documentation of covered bridges and other engineering structures in Indiana and other states created or collected by Alvin W. Holmes. The collection includes approximately 300 black and white photographs, 150 color slides, 12 color photographs, 145 postcards, 4 manuscripts and typescripts, 1 drawing, and 5 brochures about covered bridges.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Scope and Contents The collection documents Fran E. Schroeder’s architectural career. It includes architectural drawings and renderings; photographs; reference material; materials concerning the Construction Specifications Institute; business correspondence; sketches; Christmas cards by Schroeder, Leslie F. Ayres, and Pierre and Wright, ca. 1930; a variety of scrapbook materials and memorabilia; and several award plaques.The drawings are all from the office of Fran E. Schroeder and Associates. More...

Scope and Contents Spanning the period from 1965 to 2015, this collection comprises an extensive set of color slides documenting Wyman’s professional projects (both built and unbuilt); design work by Wyman’s students at Ball State University; educational field trips during Wyman’s tenure as a professor; and academic reference material used for lectures. The collection also includes several sets of working drawings and documents for Wyman’s professional projects, as well as substantial process work on tracing...

Scope and Contents This collection includes papers, photographs, slides, videos, books, architectural drawings, correspondence, financial records, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, blueprints, manuscripts and scrapbooks from John and Lynn Bower in Bloomington, Indiana ranging from 1975 to 2001 regarding the Healthy House and John Bower`s personal life.Within the Healthy House photographs and slides series, photobooks 1-4 are photographs shot during construction of the Model Healthy House featured in...

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...

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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.