LibGuides: History, Muncie: Middletown Resources

Middletown Collections

Middletown Photographs
This book is a good introduction to the photograph collections of Otto Sellers and W.A. Shift.

General Collection and Archives F534 .M9 M5 1984
Magic Middletown
1986. Through the photography of W.A. Shift, this book provides a glimpse of what life was like in Muncie in the 1920s.

General Collection and Archives F34 .M9 H66 1986
Middletown Studies Collection
Documents, oral histories, photographs, and other sources are available from University Libraries Archives and Special Collections.
Otto Sellers Photographs
Digital Media Repository
Spurgeon-Green Photographs
Digital Media Repository
W. A. Swift Photographs
Digital Media Repository
Middletown Women's History Collection
Digital Media Repository
Other Side of Middletown Photographs
Digital Media Repository
What Middletown Read
A database and search engine built upon the circulation records of the Muncie (Indiana) Public Library from November 5, 1891 through December 3, 1902.

Bibliography

Middletown: An Annotated Bibliography

This bibliography contains entries on books, dissertations, and magazine and newspaper articles about the Middletown studies, arranged chronologically from 1924 through 1987. Photocopies of the articles and most of the books listed in this bibliography are available in Archives and Special Collections.

General Collection Z7165. U6 I68 1988

Muncie Community

Middletown, A Study in Contemporary American Culture
1929. The original Middletown study of the work attitudes, religious beliefs and rites, social and domestic customs, educational practices, leisure and community activities of a typical American city.

General Collection and Archives HN57 .L8
Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts
1937. This follow-up to the first Middletown study attempts to examine the changes Muncie had undergone since the 1920s.

General Collection and Archives HN57 .L84
Working in Middletown: Getting a Living in Muncie, Indiana
1976. This study examines the work ethics of the Muncie inhabitants and compares these findings with what was documented in the original Middletown studies.

General Collection and Archives HD8085.M83 W6
Middletown Man: The Human Side of Life in Muncie, Indiana
1974. This compilation of essays attempts to understand the American experience through the examination of contemporary Muncie and the Muncie examined in the Middletown studies.

General Collection and Archives HN80 .M85 M53