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This collection contains the records of the Ball State University Women’s and Gender Studies Program ranging in date from 1970 to 2021. The collection includes ephemera, brochures, meeting minutes, newsletters, and video recordings pertaining to Women’s Week events, lectures, and Women’s Studies Program classes.

Portions of this collection have been digitized and made available on our Digital Media Repository. (Click the digital object link in the red box to access.)

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This collection includes meeting minutes, annual programs, and the constitution and by-laws from the Women`s Athenaeum Club records in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1894 to 1995 regarding the club and its activities. It also includes a single photograph of a WAC meeting held in 1903.

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This collection consists mainly of meeting minutes and related materials, handbooks, brochures and constitution and bylaws ranging from 1958 to 1977.

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This collection includes committee records, program and lecture records from the Ball State University Women's Seminar Committee ranging from 1978-2000.

Content Description This collection includes photographs, diaries, and a wooden stamp ranging from circa 1926 to 1969. The diaries were written by Bessie and Marilyn Ruble about their everyday lives in Wabash, Indiana and Van Buren, Indiana which included the weather, working, current events, church services, Sunday school, prayer meetings, board meetings, and household chores. In the diary by the unknown woman, who was the daughter of William C. Fisher, she includes prayers, poetry, recipes, quotes, and...

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This collection includes oral history transcripts of residents in Muncie, Indiana from 1974 to 1976. The collection also includes other supporting research materials. The interviewees are anonymous.

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This collection consists of government publications published during WWII by the United States Office of Civil Defense. They are broken down into the following topic categories: blackouts/air raids, civilian defense, communities/housing, construction, education, food, emergency services, medical service, industrial plants/public buildings, transportation services, veteran information and volunteer information. Additionally, there is a sheet with popular WWII song lyrics.

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100 rolls of architectural drawings from the office of W. R. Baker, South Bend, Indiana, dating from 1940 to 1958. The collection is unprocessed.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of 157 rolls of architectural working drawings and presentation drawings by Wright, Porteous and Lowe and predecessor firms, two portfolios of WPL work, 33 photographs, 2 framed collages, and 3 framed perspective renderings. Works of other firms include: Austin Engineering Bonar and AssociatesDaily EngineeringG.E.The Kellams GroupRobert L. Larue and AssociatesMcNamee Porter and Selee...

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This collection includes programs, photocopies of programs, and records from Wysor's Grand Opera House in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1897 to 1915 regarding performances at the opera house.

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This collection contains the annual records and reference files for the Yom HaShoah Holocaust Days of Remembrance observances organized by United Ministries at Ball State University ranging in date from 1984 to 2017.

Scope and Contents An anthology of 16 linked, researched stories about Middletown, Indiana, a fictional town created by the students in Professor Cathy Day's Spring 2015 ENG 444 Senior Seminar course, "Research and Fiction." This course is the capstone project in the Department of English and is comprised of students from all concentrations (Creative Writing, Literature, English Studies, Rhetoric & Writing, and English Education). The stories in this anthology were inspired by original historical...

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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.

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This collection includes information documents and correspondence regarding the Zeigler Fund and the plans for the Jewish Studies Course Development Summer Workshops in Muncie ranging from 1994 to 2001