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The county's museum and manuscript archive. The Allen County–Fort Wayne Historical Society (est. 1921), in the 1893 Old City Hall at 302 E. Berry Street. The introduction gives the shape: a collection the Center itself currently describes as more than 32,000 artifacts, photographs and documents — our comparison notes carried an older figure of 23,000, and the Center's own current description governs. Named collections the legs used: the Samuel Hanna papers; the S. F. Bowser & Co. collection; the Magnavox Company collection; and the Civil Defense Records, 1939–47, which settled the question “Fort Wayne was seventh on Hitler's bombing list.”. The Center also keeps the Richardville House and the Barr Street Market (1837), publishes the Old Fort News, runs the George R. Mather Lecture Series, and writes the Notes & Queries blog — Tom Castaldi's posts there are cited in the government and wars legs as what they are: the county historian's notes, in public. Most of the manuscript collection is consulted in person or by research request; a digitized subset runs through Purdue Fort Wayne into Indiana Memory.
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- The government, wars, business and folklore legs; the original record's files throughout.