Factories

Scope and Contents This collection includes administrative records, plant construction and planning files, position appointments, news articles, scrapbooks, and publications from the Asea Brown Boveri Westinghouse plant in Muncie, Indiana ranging from the early 1950's to the mid-1990's. There is also a photograph collection, as well as oversized photos, negatives, and slides, containing photos of plant construction, the finished building, employees, events, manufacturing equipment, and transformers. A film...

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This collection includes project documentation and digital files from the Changing Gears: End of an Era documentary film regarding the closing of the Warner Gear plant in 2009.

Scope and Contents This collection contains a 2006 photographic essay by Steve Talley titled "Documenting Deindustrialization in Middletown: A Photographic Essay." The essay documents the changing post-industrial landscape in Muncie, including photographs of abandoned factories and plants. Also includes photographs of BorgWarner (which was still in business at the time), Ball State University, the Ball family homes, the Muncie Mall, Ball Memorial Hospital, and other various businesses and homes in the Muncie...

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The content of the two folders consist of Don Blair's recollection of his time spent as a guard in Branch Camp number four here in Indiana, where he supervised German prisoners of war working in a factory. The photocopies within the folders are transcripts of Blair's interview, minutes from meetings and accounting paper from the War Department.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of landscape plans and development plans prepared by Landplus West, land planners and landscape architects, ca. 1976-1983. Many project types are represented, including housing complexes, health-care facilities, offices, factories, parks, hospitals, school and university facilities, streetscape improvements, a golf course, a post office, and a prairie restoration. The projects are located in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Tennessee, Connecticut, Ecuador, and South...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of 302 project sets of drawings from the office of architect Lester W. Routt, Vincennes, Indiana. It covers the period 1912-1970.The drawings are for a wide variety of building types in southern Indiana, northern Kentucky, and eastern Illinois: residences, apartments, hospitals, factories, fraternal lodges, schools, courthouses, churches, and offices. Most of the work is by Routt but a few drawings are by a predecessor firm, Campbell and Osterhage,...

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This collection includes administrative records, financial records, glass formula records and other materials from The Sneath Glass Company in Hartford City, Indiana ranging from 1894 to 2000 regarding the business and production of glass, and a historical account of the company.