The exact page text, read by your browser's voice.
The Library of Congress catalogue record, read whole
The 1863 map the maps file carried in one line stands here with its makers, its making, and its contents — including this town's first portrait on paper. The Library of Congress catalogues it as: Map of St. Joseph Co., Indiana, by M. W. Stokes, published at Philadelphia by M. W. Stokes in 1863, engraved, printed and mounted by Charles Shober; entered according to Act of Congress in 1863 by Stokes in the clerk's office of the federal district court for Indiana; a cadastral map — its subject headings are landowners and real property — on six sheets mounted on linen, 131 by 171 centimetres together; call number G4093.S2G46 1863 .S7, control number 2013593163, held by the Geography and Map Division. The map carries a population statistical table, a distance table, and views of residential, public and commercial buildings — the booster furniture discussed in its own article below. Its insets are the county's places, and the inset list is the point for this build: Mishawaka, Lakeville, North Liberty, Osceola, Terre Coupée, West Troy, Plainfield and New Carlisle — Lakeville drawn as an inset town plan in the county's first map, four years after its plat's recording. The State Library's county bibliography confirms the entry independently (1863, property owners indicated, a full image available online, the Library itself not owning a copy). A second Stokes issue dated 1866 stands in the Congress list beside it and is noted, not merged. The maps treatment's one-line row is hereby expanded to maker-and-date full size, from the map's own catalogue record.