The working map run: street sheets and county highway maps as a dated series

Street maps were working paper — folded in glove boxes, replaced as the streets grew — and the surviving run, assembled from the SJCPL map case and the Indiana State Library's county list, reads as one dated series. It opens before Granger existed as a name on any of them: 1838 map of South Bend; the 1876 Plan of South Bend and Mishawaka (digitized, Michiana Memory); 1892 map of River Park; 1903 city map of South Bend; Hibberd's maps of South Bend and of Mishawaka & River Park, both 1908; Calvin Moon's Up-to-Date Indexed Maps, South Bend and Mishawaka, c.1913; the joint city map of 1921; the Greater South Bend and Mishawaka sheets of 1937, 1939 and 1941; the 1948 joint map; Bruggner's street map of 1958 (Bruggner's also issued the 1949 South Bend and Mishawaka sheet); the greater-area street maps of 1969–70, 1973 and c.1980; and then, for the first time, this ground named on the cover: the 1985 map of “South Bend, Mishawaka, Osceola, Granger, Indiana and Notre Dame,” followed by the city maps of 1992, 2001 and 2004–05 and the Rand McNally South Bend/Elkhart Michiana StreetFinder of 2000. Beside the commercial sheets runs the official county series: the Indiana Highway Survey Commission's road and cultural maps of St. Joseph County, c.1936; the State Highway Commission's General Highway and Transportation Map, St. Joseph County in its 1949, 1961, 1976 and 1980 editions; Earl R. Feldman's county road map of 1933; the section maps of 1945 (Mirror Press) and 1948 (Ideal Press); the county Plan Commission road map of 1955; and the county surveyor's county map of 1973. Read in order, the two series tell one story: the cities were re-sheeted every few years while the townships waited for the highway series — and Granger enters the commercial run only in 1985, when there were finally subdivisions here to sell a street map to.

Sources: SJCPL map-case finding aid, South Bend / Mishawaka street-map series (1838–2004/05, incl. the 1985 Granger-titled sheet); Indiana State Library, St. Joseph County Maps list (Moon c.1913; Highway Survey Commission c.1936; General Highway and Transportation Map editions 1949, 1961, 1976, 1980; Feldman 1933; section maps 1945, 1948; Plan Commission 1955; Surveyor 1973).