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The school-picture limb: no firm, and the painter who is not one

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School-photograph record tested against the banked artists and schools files

Every Lakeville schoolchild of the camera age was photographed by somebody; the record names no school-picture firm for the town, and the one image professional it does name is expressly not that firm. No school-photograph company's imprint — the travelling firm that shot class portraits under contract — is carried for LaVille or the township schools in any carrier reached, and no exported documentary line, a Lakeville photograph printed as a document outside the county's archive, was found. The name the record does hold is James D. Colanese, the banked working painter of the artists file — a painter and mixed-media artist, carried there at regional size, and not a school photographer, a portrait firm or a documentary exporter; the two classes are kept separate here so his record is not stretched into this section's gap. The residue names itself: the LaVille yearbooks' imprint and credit pages, in the school and library record, are the settler for the school-picture firm, and they stand named in this lane's accounting.

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Source: The school-picture limb: no firm, and the painter who is not one, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/photographers/school-picture-limb-no-firm-and-the-painter-who/