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Sanborn® Fire Insurance Maps of Muncie, Indiana Collection consists of 200 maps depicting the commercial, industrial, and residential sections of the city from 1883 through 1911. The maps were produced by the Sanborn Map Company® to assist fire insurance agents in determining the degree of hazard and establish premiums for particular properties.


The Muncie Post-Democrat Newspaper Collection consists of issues of the historic anti-Ku Klux Klan newspaper published by George Dale from 1921 until his death in 1936, and continued as a local newspaper after his death until the 1950s.

The Muncie and Delaware County Historic Maps and Atlases features historic maps of Muncie and Delaware County, Indiana dating from 1826-1903. Included are maps of individual towns, the twelve Delaware County townships, and An Atlas of Delaware County published in 1887. The towns included are Muncie, Daleville, Yorktown, Eaton and Albany.

The Forum Literary Journal Collection consists of full-text issues of the Forum (also known as the Ball State University Forum), a quarterly literary journal published by the Department of English at Ball State University from 1960-1989. The journal accepted a variety of submissions from poetry to non-fiction.

The Ostland Atlas collection features 52 color maps from a rare atlas published by the Nazis in 1942. The creation of the Ostland Atlas was overseen by the Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Eastern Territories Alfred Rosenberg. The Atlas was used in the civil administration of the Eastern territories, including Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

The Muncie Chevrolet Plant Architectural Drawings Collection consists of 104 architectural drawings for buildings erected as part of the T.W. Warner Company, later Chevrolet Motor Company of Muncie, Indiana, between 1918 and 1920.

The Chapbook Collection consists of of 173 chapbooks including many items contributed by Elisabeth Ball and formerly held in the Educational Resources Collections, and 50 chapbooks purchased by Special Collections through the Martin and Helen Schwartz Fund.
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