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1912–1941 floor; 1929–1933 boundary
Washington Blake opened a studio at 1008 Calhoun in Fort Wayne in 1912 and worked to 1920. He was born in Missouri about 1861, was enumerated as a photographer in Fort Wayne in both 1910 and 1920, moved away in 1939, and died at Elkhart — one county east of St. Joseph — where his death notice ran in Fort Wayne's Journal Gazette on 20 November 1941. His obituary says his studio was known as the Cute Studio; that name appears in no directory Beatty searched. The entry stands open exactly as the table's pattern requires: a name, a trade, a studio name attested only by an obituary, and a death in the county next door — with no tie to Granger ground found, and none claimed.
The nearer boundary keeps an open entry of its own inside its most finished record. The Indiana Album's McDonald Studio succession (CATNUM 672) carries the ownership from Rode (ca. 1910–1929) to Thompsett in the war years, but the holder between them, 1929–1933, stands in the record itself as "Mr. L___?" — the album's own unfinished name, printed here unfinished. The settling source is the South Bend directory run for 1929–1933 under the studio's Michigan Street and successor addresses.