BALL STATE UNIVERSITY Digital Media Repository
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This site is a university repository providing access to electronic resources in the Ball University Digital Collections. The site is well supported with background information and guidance documentation. #es
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Doll Collection
The Doll Collection is a part of the Educational Resources Collections' Realia Collection. The dolls in the collection range in date from the 1930s - 1990s. They represent people from a wide range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds. A few of the dolls depict historical figures like William Penn, Benjamin Franklin, and Martha Washington. Also included are characters from popular fiction including Lewis Carroll's Alice, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, and Humpty Dumpty.
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Physical Culture Magazine Collection
This collection consists of full text issues of Physical Culture magazine, a magazine promoting health and fitness that ran between the years of 1899 and 1955. The collection was donated to the University Libraries' Archives and Special Collections by the National Strength and Conditioning Association, Ball State University Student Chapter, and Professor David R. Pearson.
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Middletown Women's History Collection
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 selected from the wealth of resources available in Ball State University Libraries Archives and Special Collections.
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Alvin W. Holmes Covered Bridge Photographs
The digital images in this collection are a representative sampling of more than 300 photographs and slides documentating covered bridges in Indiana and other locations taken by Alvin W. Holmes, ca. 1939-1972. The collection is housed in the College of Architecture and Planning's Drawings and Documents Archive.
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Anatomical Models
This collection consists of digital images of anatomical models. The models can be viewed from various angles for study and research. The models come from the collections of the Science-Health Science Library. More will be added from Educational Resources and other collections in the future.
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Ball State University Student Art
The digital images, videos and electronic art in this collection are a representative sampling of Ball State student artwork.
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Ball State University Department of Theatre and Dance Costumes
This collection consists of selected digitized images of theatre costumes created and maintained by the Ball State University Department of Theatre and Dance Costume Shop. The images include multiple costume views, close-up details of the fabric, and original conceptual sketches drawn by the costume designer. Image metadata includes size information, fabric content, plays and characters for which costumes have been used, and contact information for costume rental.
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Muncie Times Newspaper
This collection consists of digitized volumes of the Muncie Times newspaper published by owner and publisher Bea Morten-Foster since 1991. This bi-monthly publication serves the African American communities of Muncie, Richmond, Marion, New Castle and Anderson, Indiana.
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U.S. Civil War Resources for East Central Indiana
Collection includes letters, diaries, documents, photographs, and other artifacts from the United States Civil War. The collection is comprised of items from Ball State University, as well as from other historical societies, museums, public libraries and genealogy centers in East Central Indiana.
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Library Insider Newsletter
Ball State University Libraries' newsletter, The Library Insider, is a service of the Office of the Dean of University Libraries and is published monthly by the Ball State Virtual Press, Muncie, IN 47306. It is distributed electronically in PDF format to faculty and staff on the Ball State campus and to a readership off campus.
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Architecture Images
The digital images in this collection are a representative sampling of more than 119,000 slides relating to architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and, to a lesser extent, art.
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Man Haters Film Collection
The Man Haters is a rare 35mm silent movie filmed in Muncie, Indiana in 1915. The film was produced by Basil McHenry, a traveling film producer from Akron, Ohio. He financed the film with sponsorship by Muncie's Majestic Theater and The Muncie Evening Press newspaper. Readers of the Press were asked to cast their votes for the leading actresses using coupons printed in the paper. Filming began in Muncie, Indiana on November 3, 1915 and the movie opened at the Majestic Theater on November 15, 1915. Basil McHenry also produced similar films in other towns in Indiana and Ohio. This...
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Middletown Digital Oral Histories
The Middletown Digital Oral History Collection consists of audio and accompanying transcriptions for oral history interviews conducted with African American, Jewish and Catholic communities of Muncie, Indiana and local labor union leaders. This original project was funded by a Library Services and Technology Act grant for 2006-2007. The grant project included collaboration between Ball State University Libraries, the Center for Middletown Studies, St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, St. Lawrence Catholic Church, and St. Mary Catholic Church. In addition to the value of these "personal narratives" illuminating lives of Indiana citizens, the oral history collections selected for this digital collection...
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Daniel W. Hartwig Indiana Courthouse Photographs
The Daniel W. Hartwig Photograph Collection of Indiana Courthouses consists of over 500 digital photographs documenting county courthouses throughout Indiana. County courthouses form the symbolic center of dozens of Indiana towns, and many are significant architectural landmarks. When Randolph County's courthouse was in danger of demolition in 2005, Daniel Hartwig, former Assistant Archivist for the Ball State University Libraries, began photographing Indiana's courthouses. In 2006, Hartwig donated this collection to the University Libraries.
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Musical Instruments
The Musical Instrument Collection is a part of the Educational Resources Collections' Realia Collection. This is a multicultural collection. The instruments represent the cultures of five continents and are from numerous countries of origin.
This is a multicultural collection. The instruments represent the cultures of five continents and are from numerous countries of origin. Many of the instruments are available for check out from the Educational Resources Collections.
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Ball State University PolyArk/World Tour Images
The digital images in this collection are a representative sampling of images taken during the 2003-2004 CAP World Tour 2/Polyark XVI trip to more than three dozen cities in 18 countries on three continents. Destinations included cities in England, Italy, Spain, Russia, China, Egypt, and India.
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World War II Films
This collection consists of short films and news clips, primarily in black and white, documenting Allied operations and activities during WWII. In addition to footage of campaigns in Europe and in the Pacific, the films document activities on the homefront, including the efforts of African American colleges and farmers, the relocation and internment of Japanese civilians, and the victory garden program sponsored by the U.S. Office of Civilian Defense.
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Other Side of Middletown Photographs
In the 1920s, Robert and Helen Lynd conducted a sociological study of Muncie that was published in 1929 as Middletown: A Study in American Culture. Unfortunately, the Lynds virtually overlooked the African American population in their work that examined Muncie as a "representative American Community." The Other Side of Middletown Collection, consisting of over 150 digital images, illustrates the history of the life and achievements of African Americans in Muncie and Delaware County through photographs donated by members of the community. The collection was the product of a collaborative project undertaken in 2003-04 involving Hurley Goodall, Eric Lassister, Elizabeth Campbell,...
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Ball State University Campus Photographs
The digital images in this collection are a representative sampling of more than 40,000 photographs, negatives and other images from the Ball State University Archives dating back to 1899. Images document events, activities, people, growth, and development of Ball State as a university.
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Physical Culture Magazine
This collection consists of full text issues of Physical Culture magazine, a magazine promoting health and fitness that ran between the years of 1899 and 1955. The collection was donated to the University Libraries' Archives and Special Collections by the National Strength and Conditioning Association, Ball State University Student Chapter, and Professor David R. Pearson.
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