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New Digital Collections from Archives and Special Collections

Friends Memorial Church, Muncie, Indiana The Friends Memorial Church Collection digital collection includes historical documents and photographs that chronicle the history of Friends Memorial Church in Muncie, Indiana. The items in the collection come from the Friends Memorial Church and Ball State University Libraries' Archives and Special Collections.
Pierre and Wright Architectural Drawing

The Pierre and Wright Architectural Records collection includes drawings, photographs, 3-D models, and ephemera from the architecture firms of Edward D. Pierre, the Pierre and Wright Partnership, and Edward D. Pierre and George Caleb Wright. Pierre and Wright were responsible for designing many well-known buildings through Indianapolis and the state of Indiana. The archival collection is housed in the Drawings and Documents Archive.

The Charles E. Bracker Orchid Photographs includes 455 photographs taken by Dr. Charles E. Bracker, professor of botany and plant patholocy at Purdue University from 1964-1999. His late wife, Anri Bracker, cultivated orchids as a hobby. Dr. Bracker took 30,000 photographs of these orchids and others.

376th Heavy Bombardment Group Emblem

The 376th Heavy Bombardment Group Oral Histories includes forty-two video oral history interviews with veterans of the 376th Heavy Bombardment Group Histories.

Mae Evans, Middletown Women's History Collection

The Middletown Women's History Collection provides online access to archival materials documenting the experiences of women and women's organizations in Muncie, Indiana from the 1880s through the 1930s. It includes diaries, minutes, correspondence, photographs and other documents.

   
Archives and Special Collections,
Bracken Library 210, Ball State University,
Muncie, IN 47306-0161 Phone: 765-285-5078,
Fax: 765-285-8149, Email: libarchives@bsu.edu