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
Archives and Special Collections offers a variety of books pertaining to 20th century children's literature. Topics covered include children's stories, fairy tales, myths, religious stories, stories, songs, and nursery rhymes.
To discover materials relating to children's literature, try search OneSearch by entering Children's literature or Juvenile literature in the subject field.
More resources regarding Children's Literature may be found in the University Libraries Educational Resources Collections, which includes Books for Youth, a collection of fiction and non-fiction titles targeted for preschool through grade 12 readers. Learn more about the Books for Youth Collection.
Jack the Giant Killer was publish in New York by the McLoughlin Bro's circa 1889.