The mission of Archives and Special Collections is to collect, preserve, and provide access to archival and printed materials that support the research and instructional needs of students, faculty, national and international scholars, and the general public.
Description: The Digital Media Repository offers digitized versions of a wide range of items including photographs, letters, posters, artwork, books, newspapers, and motion pictures. It also contains the Ball State University Board of Trustees minutes, building plans, course catalogs, and many other collections of university related items.
Time Period: 1800's to present
Sources: Contains records more than 175,000 items_
Subject Headings: General, History, Humanities, News, Social Sciences (Images)
Scholarly or Popular: Semi-scholarly
Primary Materials: Archival Material, Audio, Books/e-books, Images, Maps, Models, News, Other, Videos
Information Included: Full Text, Citations
FindIt@BALL STATE: No
Print Equivalent: None
Publisher: Ball State University Libraries
Updates: Daily
Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
The Ball State University Libraries Digital Media Repository features numerous veterans from conflicts ranging from the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) to the Persian Gulf War (1991). Some of the resources are images, whereas others are recorded veteran accounts or scrapbooks.
U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865
World War I, 1914-1918
World War II, 1939-1945
Cold War, 1940s-1990s
Busick, Jr., Harry C. |
Giffen, Donald T. |
Korean War, 1950-1953
Cottrell, Raymond H. |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Persian Gulf War, 1991
Ioanes, Michael J. |