Genealogy: Traveling through Time Bethany Fiechter Archivist for Manuscript and Digital Collections Ready Reference Works Progress Administration (WPA) Index Delaware County Histories City Directories Family Files Microfilm: Vital Records Local History Files Vertical files of newspaper clippings collected since the late 1970s. Includes information about Muncie and Delaware County people, buildings, events, and miscellaneous odds and ends Digitized over 10,000 clippings; making them available on our reading room computers One-stop, full-text searching Finding Aids A descriptive tool that includes the contents and arrangement of materials in the collection 800 manuscript collections, and over 300 photograph collections Digital Media Repository A digital repository housing documents, oral histories, photographs, maps, and other sources Over 140 collections, 423,000 items How to search? For More Information Bethany Fiechter Archivist for Manuscript and Digital Collections Ball State University Libraries Photographs: P8-0029, P , P8-0115, P X240, P , P , P , P