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This collection includes federal census information from Delaware County and surrounding counties in Indiana ranging from 1820 to 1930.

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This collection includes city and township budgets from several cities and townships within Delaware County, Indiana ranging from 1955 to 1960.

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This collection includes bounty applications and audit certificates, regiment muster certificates, recruit lists, service records, financial records, veterans' enrollment forms, and other materials from Delaware County, Indiana ranging from 1861 to 1906 regarding the history of the Civil War in Delaware County, and, more specifically, the administration of bounties, enlistment of men, and enrollment of veterans during and after the war.

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This collection contains appropriation records from the Delaware County Clerk’s Office. These records show paid by the county courts for telephone service, salaries, care of juvenile offenders, and other services and supplies from 1937-1939. The juvenile court appropriations are records of fees paid to juvenile detention centers for the transportation and care of inmates from Delaware County. Also included is one jury summons from 1939.

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This collection contains the minute book of the Sunday School Association, later the Delaware County Council of Religious Education, spanning the years 1877-1936.

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This collection includes two plates depecting the third and fourth Delaware County Courthouses in Muncie, Indiana.

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This collection includes copies of handwritten deed indexes for Delaware County, Indiana from 1828 to 1899. The indexes are organized by seller, or Grantor, and indicate the Grantee, or buyer, as well as the page in the deed book where the deed can be located.

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This collection includes reports, minutes, statements of purpose, by-laws, legislative acts, and other records that document the activities of the Delaware County EMS Commission between 1970 and 1983.

Scope and Contents This collection includes minutes, membership rolls, financial records, and programs ranging from 1919-1943 that document the organization and advocacy of agricultural groups in Delaware County, Indiana. The Delaware County Farmers' Institute records include minutes, membership rolls, financial records, and programs that document the membership of the Farmers' Institute and training opportunities offered by the organization from 1922-1943. A ledger with unidentified records related to...

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This collection includes newspaper articles, photographs, books, promotional materials, scrapbooks, etc. pertinent to Habitat for Humaity's work in throughout the Delaware County, Indiana community ranging from 1985 to 2015.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of records and photographs from the Delaware County Historical Society (previously, Delaware County Historical Alliance) in Muncie, Indiana ranging from circa 1920s to 2017. Records include Board of Directors meeting minutes, bylaws, correspondence, financial statements, mission statements and policy documents, membership listings, newsletters, informational pamphlets, and calendars. Photographs include images of historic homes and other buildings in Delaware County...

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This collection includes slides of historic Delaware County images, including buildings, factories, Sanborn maps, etc.

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This collection includes documents, minutes, publications, newspaper clippings, chairperson records, and research documents from the Delaware County Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition in Delaware County ranging from 1980 to 2009 regarding coalition members, activities, and events.

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This collection contains meeting minutes, by-laws, and newspaper articles pertaining to the Delaware County, Indiana Literacy Council from 1964-1966.

Scope and Contents The Delaware County Jail research files is a collection of newspaper clippings compiled and indexed by the Center for Middletown Studies. They range from 1978 to 1997, though the index only includes the newspaper clippings until 1994. These articles are clipped from the Muncie Evening Press and the Muncie Star respectively. The substance of the articles focuses mostly on the building plans of the new Delaware County Justice Center and the...

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This collection includes supply lists, claims, and correspondence from local government in Delaware County ranging from 1851 to 1888 regarding relief records composed from local citizens.

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This collection includes reports, promotional material, educational material, minutes, correspondence, newspapers, etc. from the Delaware County chapter of the Prevent Child Abuse Council ranging from 1984 to 2016.

Scope and Contents The Delaware County Public Schools collection contains records such as school directories and manuals meant for all schools within the county. The remainder of the collection contains yearbooks, photographs, student newspapers, histories, commencement programs, reunion programs, instruction notes and other related materials from eleven of the twelve townships in Delaware County, Indiana (Center, Hamilton, Harrison, Liberty, Monroe, Mount Pleasant Niles, Perry, Salem, Union and Washington)...

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This collection includes reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, financial records, seminary documents, board of trustee documents, personnel directories, school record books, and pupil and teacher home records from the Delaware County School Superintendent in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1830 to 1968 regarding activities within the Muncie Community School Corporation.

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This collection includes correspondence, minutes, promotional flyers, brochures, booklets, newsletters, etc. from Delaware County TEAMwork for Quality Living in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1991 to 2001 regarding the creation of a healthy community while empowering people in living in poverty.

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The collection consists of files relating to the operation of the D.C.T.A. from 1919 to 1991. This includes annual reports, short histories, scrapbooks, statistical reports on tuberculosis in Delaware County, photographs, articles of incorporation, Christmas Seals sales, relations with other Delaware County organizations, policy, employment practices, and various programs. Oversize material consists of the 1922 Certificate of Incorporation and a 1987 Proclamation of “TB Awareness Week.”

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This collection includes administrative records, conference materials, and related organization materials from Delaware County Youth Empowerment in Delaware Country, Indiana ranging from 1990 to 2011 regarding youth assistance, empowerment and education.

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This collection includes annual reports, minutes, budget information, agendas, plans and reports, deeds, brochures and newspaper clippings from the Delaware-Muncie Metropolitan Plan Commission in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1827 to 1998 regarding the group's administrative records and various projects undertaken.

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This collection contains the diary of Delight Bobilya (Wier) kept from August 31 1940-August 30, 1945 during which time she was an undergrad at Ball State University. The diary details information about her life, relationships, and the effect of World War II on student life. Three versions of the diary are kept in the collection including the original, and a typed and bound version transcription created by Delight's daughter, Rebecca Wier Lock, in both physical and digital versions.

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The records include material documenting both the philanthropic and social activities of the Indiana Alpha chapter and the national organization. Records include the constitution, by-laws, membership rosters, programs, minutes and a scrapbook.

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This collection consists of materials related to the planning and implementation of the Royerton sewer system. Included is a map of observed drain pipes before construction of a new system, a feasibility study, public meeting information and notes and many news clippings from local papers.

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This collection includes files from the Department of Anthropology at Ball State University ranging from 1965 to 1988 regarding lecture series pamphlets, archaeological reports, planning documents, Museum of Anthropology booklets, field school session brochures, and Department of Anthropology promotional materials.

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This collection includes departmental records and exhibition documents from the Ball State University Department of Art ranging from 1950 to 1980.