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Sources — Lakeville
Every history stands on a shelf, and Lakeville's shelf is short enough to read whole — which, across three passes, this build has nearly done. Two county histories carry the town; a third was found to carry two of its men; a fourth and fifth stand tested on the same shelf. The town's own book exists, is located, and cannot be dated from any catalog on earth that this build can reach. And the town's newspaper — the source a small town's history usually stands on — does not exist in any record this build is permitted to open. Each of those facts has its article.
Chapman (1880) — the First County History
1880 · ISL 977.201 S143
History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Chicago, 1880) is the earliest full narrative this township has, and the build's first resort for its nineteenth century. Its Union Township chapter (pp. 949–964, the…
Howard (1907) — the Town's Narrative to 1907
1907 · ISL 977.201 S143h
Timothy Edward Howard's A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (Lewis Publishing Company, 1907, two volumes) is the second county history and the only one that tells the town's own story as a town. Volume 1 carries the Union…
Goodspeed (1893) — Biographies Only, Tested Positive
1893 · ISL 977.201 E43p
The third book on the shelf stood untested through two passes; tested in this one, it carries Lakeville after all — two sketches, at biographical strength. Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties…
Anderson & Cooley (1901) — a South Bend Book on a County Shelf, Tested
1901 · ISL 977.201 S143sa
South Bend and the Men Who Have Made It It does not surface any: a search for the title with the town's name returned no Lakeville content from inside the book — only the shelf listing itself (which misprints the compilers as "Anderson and Coolery," a form that stands in the register against the title page's "Anderson & Cooley," the title page governing) and unrelated hits. But a clean full-text negative was NOT established, and the reason prints: the Archive.org full text of the volume is severely garbled two-column OCR, which cannot prove an absence. The book therefore stands as: identified precisely; no Lakeville/Union coverage surfaced at reached strength; the final-form negative banked as a named gap, its settler a clean OCR or full-text run of the Archive.org copy.
Stoll (1923) — the County Account in Esarey's Third Volume; the Name-Run Still Owed
1923 · ISL 977.201 S143st
"Stoll (1923)" is An Account of St. Joseph County From Its Organization , edited by John B. Stoll, forming Volume 3 of Logan Esarey's History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922 (Dayton Historical Publishing Co., 1923). The…
Geyer, Now & Then — the Town's Own Book, and the Verso That Would Date It
undated in every catalog reached · ISL 977.201 S143zLg, closed stacks
Lakeville has a history of its own — Jeanne Geyer's Now & then, a collection of pictures and stories about Lakeville, Indiana , a pictorial town history — and no catalog this build can reach will say when it was published, by…
The Two Shenemans — One Title, Two Books
2004 · and the modern volume
Franklin Sheneman's Southern St. Joseph County exists twice, and LK-2's open question — whether the second listing was the first book reissued — is settled here: it is a second, distinct book. The publisher's own listings, read…
The Newspaper Lineage — an Empty Heading, a Coverage Pattern, and a Denied Settler
1831 – present
No newspaper published in Lakeville is carried by any record this build is permitted to open — and that sentence is printed with its whole evidence, because a town's missing newspaper is a fact about its sources, not an oversight…
The Sanborn Negative — Two Lists Read, One Name-Check Outstanding
searched LK-1 · sharpened LK-3
No Sanborn fire insurance map of Lakeville is known to this build, and the negative stands one look short of its final form. LK-1's test: the State Library's Sanborn list, letters G–L, read whole — no Lakeville entry stands…
The Indiana State Library — the Shelf List Itself
Indianapolis
The State Library's county-history holdings guide is this build's shelf list, and a source in itself. Its St. Joseph County page (read whole) files every volume in the shelf articles above with its film, reprint, and online…
Local & Family History, and Michiana Memory — the Tribune Photographs
304 S. Main St, South Bend
The county library's Local & Family History department holds the largest visual record of the county's twentieth century, and its rights line governs every use of it. The department's own holdings and services stand in the…
The History Museum and the Denham Collection — 81 Boxes, an Index, and a Whole-Read Still Owed
808 W. Washington St, South Bend
The county historian's own files survive as the Jeanne Denham Collection at The History Museum — eighty-one archival boxes, indexed online, and searched for Lakeville at snippet strength. The index, posted by the South Bend Area…
Notre Dame Archives — the Historical Society's Manuscripts, 38 Reels
University of Notre Dame Archives
The Northern Indiana Historical Society's local history manuscripts rest at the University of Notre Dame Archives as collection NIH: thirty-eight reels of microfilm, dated 1801–1970. The Archives' own record (ArchivesSpace) gives…
The Indiana State Archives — the "Lakeville" Run Still Owed
Indianapolis
LK-1's gap G-S7 named two searches; the libraries leg settled its district item, and the Archives item stands open. The Archives' catalogs — the Research Indiana Catalog of descriptive holdings entries and its name indexes — were…
The Record Series the Build Stands On
federal and state series, named
Behind the books stands a row of official series, each named here with what Lakeville took from it. The Census Bureau's series: the 2020 Gazetteer file (the town's and township's areas, coordinates, and identifiers, read…
The Digitized Shelves and Their Traps — with the Method of This Build
method
This build reads its books through screens, and this article names each screen and the way it lies. Archive.org carried the Chapman, Howard, Goodspeed, and Anderson & Cooley copies and holds the page images every transcription…
The Pull List — What Remains Physical, Geyer First
the not-digitized ledger
Nine items stand between this build and the bottom of Lakeville's record, and the town's own book stands first. (1) Geyer, Now & then — Indiana State Library, closed stacks, 977.201 S143zLg; its title-page verso settles G-S8. (2)…
The Open-Questions Ledger and the Photographs Ledger
the honest tail
The questions this build has not settled stand here at pointer size, each with its settler, beside the standing of the town's photographs. The open questions: When was Geyer's book published, and by whom (the verso of the State…
The audit found the sources leg thinner than its own bibliography lists: atlases and a town plan the build used but never entered, a press class richer than this section's named examples, official series used under one example each, and the periodical and shelf-stock classes carried by implication. This addendum enters what the build actually used, class by class, with the yield of each stated — the discipline of the owning fragment applied to the classes it slighted.
The atlases and the plan, entered with what each yielded
Three works the build leans on daily had no shelf entry: the 1875 atlas, the 1917 atlas, and the 2011 plan. The 1875 Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana (Higgins, Belden & Co.) — entered: Union Township at pages…
The institutional press, worked as a class
Beyond the newspapers stands a press class this build uses constantly and had never entered: the university's magazine and archive, the diocese's weekly, and the trade press. Notre Dame Magazine — the University of Notre Dame's…
The official series, continued past one example each
The leg's fault was exemplars where the build had series; the series stand here, each with what it yielded. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's national-bank record — yielded the first bank's charter, No. 516, and the…
Periodicals and shelf scholarship: the IMH stock and the monographs
The build's deepest carriers are a journal and a shelf of monographs; both stand entered here with their yields. The Indiana Magazine of History (Indiana University, since 1905) — the journal class's head: its yields in this…
The source-list form: carriers named in text, and the per-article list
This build's practice is two-tiered, and the tiers are now both in print. The first tier is the build's founding practice, stated in the sources fragment's own header: carriers are named in the text — a fact arrives with its…