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Banked directory benches and Chapman sketch register, broken out by community
A general absence can hide a particular presence; this article breaks the studio absence out by community, and the absence holds in every class — with one honest limit stated at the end. Women of the trade: no woman photographer, studio operator or camera-trade worker is named for Lakeville or Union Township in any directory bench, in Chapman's sketch register, or in any carrier reached — in a record that does name the town's milliner and its women owners in the roster's own sweep, the camera class returns no woman because it returns no one. The limit: the directory benches are point samples (1875, 1880–85, 1889, 1916–17), and the census occupation manuscripts for Union Township, the settler that could catch a camera worker between benches, were not swept; they are named in this lane's accounting as the residue, and the breakout stands at directory-and-history strength until they are read.