Education Resources in Archives and Special Collections

Annual surveys sponsored by Ball State’s College of Science and Humanities and the Center for Middletown Studies between 1978 and 2004. The purpose of these studies was to assess the views and lifestyles of citizens on major topics including questions

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.

Richard A. (Dick) Greene was born in Richmond, Indiana, in 1903, but his family moved to Muncie while he was a child. In 1945, Greene started his "Seen and Heard in Our Neighborhood" column for the Muncie Star. When he passed away in 1984, Greene left a l

W.A. Swift was born in Metamora, Indiana, on August 17, 1877. He moved to Muncie in 1918 and was working for the Delaware Engraving Company as a photographer by 1923. He was a commercial photographer in Muncie through the 1940s.

The Other Side of Middletown Photograph Collection consists of 150 digital images illustrating the history of the life and achievements of African Americans in Muncie and Delaware County through photographs donated by members of the community.

Otto Sellers was a commercial and portrait photographer in Muncie in the early part of the 20th century. Sellers kept written logs for many of his photographs, taken primarily between 1908 and 1926, with the information arranged by name of buyer, subject,