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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.)

Scope and Contents This collection contains account records, membership lists, applications, flyers, departmental correspondence, national correspondence, materials from special events and guest lecturers, receipt books, blank stationery, informational brochures, handbooks, minutes of meetings, secretary-treasurer notebooks, official certificates, newspaper clippings, and a few photos from the 1930's. The collection is arranged alphabetically by category and chronologically within each category. Events...

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This collection includes slides of Muncie postcards.

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This collection includes notes, documents, newspaper clippings, photographs, realia, audio recordings, videos, etc. from Raymond E. White in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1864 to 2013 regarding Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, and other B Western actors and actresses.

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This collection includes military documents from 1939 to 1989. It also contains engineering projects, correspondence, original literature, newspaper clippings, general World War II documents, books on the history of the 376th Bombardment Group and military photographs.

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...

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This collection includes directories, scrapbooks, building plans, postcards, publications, certificates, news clippings, programs, photographs, artifacts, audio recordings, and video recordings from Riverside United Methodist Church in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1902 to 2003 regarding the church's history, the congregation, and church activities and events.

Scope and Contents This collection contains materials associated with Dr. Robert H. Cooper from both his professional and personal life dating from 1920 to 1981. Due to Dr. Cooper’s involvement in the formation of the Ball African bird collection, this collection contains numerous letters coordinating the acquisition, shipping, and exhibition of the bird specimens. The collection also includes Dr. Cooper’s genealogy notes, certificates and materials from his time as a pilot, and certificates from his clubs and...

Scope and Contents This collection mostly consists of materials related to Burris High School athletics, senior classes from the 1930s and 1940s and subsequent reunion materials from selected classes from the time period. News clippings, commencement programs and a memory book can be found in the collection. Fisher’s scrapbook includes team stats and information and also includes photos of Burris athletic teams (including the basketball teams), photographs of basketball players and members of the track team. A...

Scope and Contents This collection contains papers and photographs from Robert L. Vandevender II ranging from 1933 to 1993 and includes photographs of Hartford City Civil War Days, the Vandevender family, house renovations, and Muncie Police badges; digital photographs of Blaine Elementary School's 1940 kindergarten class (students named include Evelyn Matthews, Anglin Vandevender, Richard and Harold Stanley, Cecil Alfront, and Margaret Kennedy); and digitized materials from a 1975 Independent Order of Odd...

Scope and Contents This collection contains records from Rotary International District 6560 for the years 1905-2013 and includes local club records, conference records, correspondence, financial records, international exchange program records, newsletters, handbooks and manuals, subject files, scrapbooks, photographs and slides, audiovisual recordings, realia, and born digital records. The majority of the records were created and maintained by the following past district governors during their terms in office:...

Scope and Contents This collection includes papers of Roy S. Simmonds documenting his career as a literary scholar ranging from 1927 to 2001. It includes articles, book reviews, research files, and correspondence documenting his career as a scholar of author John Steinbeck. Also included are copies of articles, book reviews, indexes, and lists by other Steinbeck scholars and writings by John Steinbeck. The audio recordings series includes interviews about John Steinbeck and audio recordings of his books....

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...

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This collection includes scans of eighteen letters written to Sarah E. McVicker Johnson by her brother, Joseph W. McVicker, and other soldiers from Delaware County during and after the Civil War (1862-1876). PSC 322 includes a scanned photograph of Sarah E. McVicker.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of records pertaining to Schuyler N. Nolan’s landscape architecture practice in Indianapolis, 1939-1973. It includes landscape and garden plans for 56 projects of various types: private homes and estates, banks, insurance companies, schools, and churches. Among the commercial clients are Glendale Shopping Center, L. S. Ayres and Co., and Indiana National Bank. Nolan also did work for Washington Park Cemetery and the 1937 Indianapolis Home Show. Residential clients...

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This collection contains personal correspondence, magazines and news clippings, personal photographs, an unpublished manuscript, and other materials created by or relating to Shirley Puckett Sheperd of Muncie, Indiana for the years 1941-1995. It also three photographs of Shepard as a child: one oversized photograph and two digital photographs.

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This collection includes 21 scrapbooks created by the Iota Chi Chapter of the Sigma Alpha Iota music sorority at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1946 to 1997.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of engineering drawings, commission lists, and photographs from the office of Snider and Rotz Engineers. It covers the period 1912-1993. Most of the projects are in Indianapolis, Indiana.The commission lists are eight bound volumes that chronologically document the firm’s commissions from 1913 to 1981. The drawings are mostly mechanical drawings for heating, ventilation, electrical wiring, and plumbing on many different kinds of projects from...

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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.

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...

Scope and Contents This collection includes bulletins (monthly newsletters), correspondence, directories, minutes, reports, audiovisual recordings, photographs, and other material from Temple Beth-El in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1922-2013 regarding the history, membership, initiatives, and governance of Temple Beth-El. It also includes a videotape of "New Horizons: Jewish Liturgical Music through the Centuries," a presentation that was part of Temple Beth-El's centennial celebration. It includes three tapes...

Scope and Contents This collection includes research involved in creating a video about the 1915 film, The Man Haters. It includes documents about the original cast members, the producer, the local newspaper popularity contest, working papers for the grant application, production videos, still photographs from the original film, personal photographs of the cast members, and a copy of a publication written by Nancy Turner about the project ranging from 1894 to 1997...

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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...

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This collection includes photographs and negtaives from the Star Press newspaper in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1967 to 2004. The collection includes shots of various Muncie events, citizens, businesses, landmarks, etc. For newspaper clippings, see MSS.365: The Star Press newspaper reference files.

Scope and Contents The Thomas A. Sargent papers include information about the Muncie Symphony Orchestra, manuscripts, correspondence, interviews, audiocassettes, and photocopies of pictures of the orchestra through the years. The correspondence file contains letters to and from colleagues, faculty members, friends, as well as his letters to the publisher of his book, "The Muncie Symphony Orchestra: Fifty Seasons of Music." The interview file contains transcripts of Thomas A. Sargent's interviews with various...

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This collection includes a school book and papers, records of births in the family, a memoranda book, postcards, Westwood property assessments and plat maps, correspondence, photographs and a film reel from the Mann family in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1896 to 1959 regarding the Mann family`s history and travels.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of 51 photographs of fashionable suburban houses in northern Illinois and Wisconsin taken between about 1923 and 1936 by Raymond W. Trowbridge, Jessie Tarbox Beals, and an unidentified photographer. Approximately, twenty-one houses are depicted, all of them recently constructed. Many (perhaps all) were designed by architects Russell S. Walcott, Robert Work, and the firm Walcott and Work. The houses, whose locations are known, are in Winnetka, Evanston, Lake Forest,...

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...