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1894–2006, floor and boundary; Granger ground 2005–2006
The civic commission belongs to the floor. Charles Winslow Miner (b. Columbia City, 26 January 1866; d. 22 May 1912) began as a traveling photographer, worked for Schanz, and from 1894 — Miner & Dexter at 44 Calhoun, then alone at 23 W. Wayne, renumbered 102 W. Wayne in 1902 — built the studio Griswold described in 1905 as "built for him according to his own plans." He is best known for his extensive photographs of the new Allen County Courthouse at its opening, published with a souvenir booklet; his studio continued to 1916 under his successor Ozaki, and his work is held by the Allen County–Fort Wayne Historical Society and the Indiana Historical Society. The nearer boundary's art photographer is Gabriel DeLobbe, Belgian-born, of Fort Wayne's circle as much as South Bend's: he photographed the Fort Wayne Art School faculty in the 1970s — the "iconic porch group photo" of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art's account — the Fort Wayne Ballet's Festival of Dance program, and the city's Performing Arts Theater about 1973, and taught photography in the city; he had been a Belgian resistance fighter at fourteen in 1940.
The staff tradition at boundary size is the South Bend Tribune's, and its archive states its own scope: the South Bend Tribune Photographs Collection at the St. Joseph County Public Library holds the negatives made by Tribune newspaper photographers for published articles, 1937–1999 (bulk 1950–1999), twenty-one cabinets and ninety-four boxes, documenting South Bend, St. Joseph County and, to a lesser extent, surrounding counties; the collection was donated 20 May 2019, more than 10,000 negatives covering 1937–1990 have been digitized at Michiana Memory under an IMLS grant through the Indiana State Library, and the Tribune's 2021 release put the full donation at as many as one million photographs. The finding aid itself names a gap: no coverage of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s South Bend visit of 18 October 1963. Copyright remains with the Tribune.
In 2005 the Tribune's "Connecting past, present" reported historical photographs — found at the Northern Indiana Center for History and donated by Granger community members Donn Kryder and Arlene Waitkins — hung enlarged at the Harris Branch library; the story's photographs carry the credit "Tribune Photos / Jim Rider." In 2006 the Harris Branch garden-statue story in the banked arts-culture fragment is photographed by Tribune photographer Greg Swiercz. Two staff names on Granger assignments, preserved because a credit line survived: that is the press-photographer record of the townships at its true size. One credit remains a named gap: the photographer of the site photographs in the 2023 Harris Prairie Cemetery historic-preservation packet (banked under Cemeteries) was not retrieved; the packet itself is the settling source.