Bird's-eye views: a printed negative for the village and the two townships

Tested negative. The Library of Congress panoramic-map collection — the bird's-eye views of North American towns, 1847–1929, catalogued in the Geography and Map Division's panoramic checklist — was searched in November 2026 for Granger, for Clay Township and for Harris Township. No panoramic view of any of the three exists in the collection. The genre explains the absence: a bird's-eye was itself a subscription product, drawn for a town big enough to sell prints of itself, and this ground had no such town in the panoramic decades. What the county does hold stands next door and is not this ground: the SJCPL map case lists an 1866 “Pictorial Map of South Bend” (three copies, plus a newspaper reproduction) and an 1890 view, “South Bend, Indiana, Looking West.” The audit's test name for the 1866 South Bend sheet was Ruger; the SJCPL finding aid names no maker for its 1866 pictorial, and this section found no open catalogue record that settles the attribution, so the maker's name is not printed here as fact. The negative is the finding for Granger: no artist ever drew this farmland from a balloon that never rose, and any future bird's-eye of Granger will be a modern rendering, not a recovered print.

Sources: Library of Congress panoramic maps collection and checklist (searches: “Granger, Indiana”; “Clay Township”; “Harris Township” — no results, November 2026); SJCPL map-case finding aid (1866 Pictorial Map of South Bend; 1890 Looking West). GAP-35-6: maker of the 1866 South Bend pictorial — settler: the Library of Congress panoramic checklist entry for South Bend, Indiana.