Sound recordings

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This collection includes reel-to-reel tapes, vinyl records, and compact discs from Ball State University's School of Music ranging from 1956 to 2009 regarding performances by Ball State University Choirs and professional artists. Furthermore, the collection is divided into different series depending on the media type. The first two series are arranged chronologically, however, the last series of compact discs is arranged according to the numbering system provided by the School of Music.

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This collection contains completed survey forms and survey processing records (codebooks, cross tabulations, and frequency tables); correspondence, grant proposals, and other administrative and project planning records; newspaper clippings, research articles, and other reference material; and oral history interview audio recordings and transcripts from the Black Middletown research project ranging from 1968 to 1986.

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This collection includes photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, genealogy notes, negatives, and audio and video recordings from the Bower family of Indiana ranging from 1871 to 2001 regarding Bower and Dowell family history.

Scope and Contents This collection includes the papers and records of Charles M. Sappenfield, who served as Ball State University’s Dean of the College of Architecture and Planning from 1965 to 1981 and then as a professor until 1994.Series 1: Charles Sappenfield Personal Correspondence and Research Files, 1963-1995. This series is comprised of Sappenfield's personal papers and includes reccomendation correspondence and career posting inqueries. Series 2: College of Architecture and...

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This collection includes periodicals, newspaper reproductions, and albums from the Das III Reich series published circa 1970s regarding the history of the Third Reich.

Scope and Contents This collection includes publications, correspondence, newspaper clippings, personal papers, family papers, Muncie and Ball State University related book, medical career files, materials on Calvin Coolidge, computer files, audio recordings, video recordings, photographic materials, and inventions and other artifacts from Dr. W. Philip Ball in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1923 to 2015 regarding Dr. Ball's medical and writing careers, the Ball family, and Dr. Ball's other interests and...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of records for the Eastern Communication Association ranging from 1910 to 2010. These records include constitutions, by-laws, correspondence, and other administrative records; Executive Council and committee records; officer and membership records; convention planning records; financial records; organizational newsletters, periodicals, and other publications; photographs; audio and video recordings; and other records documenting the professional and administrative...

Scope and Contents The collection contains the personal and professional papers of Dr. Tetsumaro Hayashi ranging in date from circa 1940 to 2009. Records include personal correspondence with friends, family, colleagues, and other Steinbeck scholars; both published and unpublished manuscripts; various accumulated professional and administrative papers; records from professional organizations and services, including the Steinbeck Society of America and the Steinbeck Quarterly...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a wide range of materials and includes programs, evaluations, applications, budget information, sketches, news clippings, and many other items of the Renaissance Fair Committee. The collection concentrates on the 1978, 1979, and 1980 fairs, but also includes other materials through 1986. This collection was donated by Patricia Schaefer, who served as general chairwoman for the first two fairs, and Cassie Bolander.A separate photograph series contains...

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...

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 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 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 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:...

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This collection includes hand written journals and cassette tapes from Sandra Sue Seiwert in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1986 to 2009. The cassette tapes consist of her travels to East Asia in 1994.

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This collection includes originals and photocopies of correspondence from noted authors and scholars such as Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Gore Vidal, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Updike, Studs Terkel, and Tom Wolfe from 1998-2004. Also included is a manuscript copy of an interview conducted by George with Thom Steinbeck, son of John Steinbeck, and George's book, The Moral Philosophy of John Steinbeck.

Scope and Contents The Steve Bell papers and audiovisual recordings collection includes correspondence, speech transcripts, photographs, scripts, newspaper clippings, press notes, essays, and other materials pertinent to Steve Bell’s career as a news correspondent/anchor for WOW-TV, ABC News, and KYW-TV ranging from 1964 to 1992. It also includes articles, correspondence, speech transcripts, newspaper clippings, and other materials from Bell’s time as a professor at Ball State University from 1992 to 2010. ...

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 annual reports, construction records, financial records, historical papers, minutes, membership records, scrapbooks, Sunday School records, photographs, digital photographs of the stained glass panels, oral history recordings and other material from the Unitarian Universalist Church in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1855 to 2014 regarding the administration, finances, history, membership, ministries, property and services of the church.

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This collection includes audio recordings on audio cassettes, audio reels, and compact discs from the Ball State University Marketing and Communications office in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1988 to 1999 regarding Ball State University productions, news broadcasts, public service announcements, interviews, and public interest programs.