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The city, digitizing itself. The City of Fort Wayne maintains three collections on the Internet Archive, and their scale is the comparison's finding: more than 16,000 city documents, more than 13,000 City Clerk documents, and more than 11,000 City Council ordinance volumes. The Council proceedings collection alone holds 15,489 items beginning in 1967. The government leg read in that corpus first-hand: the June-session proceedings samples from 1967 through 1981, the special session of 13 September 1974, and the full council packet of 9 March 1982 — the paper trail of the modern city's ordinary business, ordinances, claims and all.
What it proved here: for the postwar decades the proceedings are the only continuous first-hand record of city government that can be read from a desk at all, and they carried the clerk and council record through the years where the State Board of Accounts rosters fail (see below). A city that scans its own council books has done its historians a service most cities have not.
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- The government leg (1967–82 in depth), the business and current legs.