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 libraries leg; this article carries the collection as a source. On 20 May 2019 the South Bend Tribune donated its photograph archive to the library; librarians curated a selection released 2 September 2021 on Michiana Memory, funded by a federal grant through the State Library. The collection's figures print whole and unmerged, as the register carries them: the system's release states "over 10,000 images" released, from a donation of "as many as 1 million photographs," the photos representing county places and people "from the 1950s to the 1990s"; a Tribune article carried in a university guide states "over 10,000 digitized photographic negatives created by the South Bend Tribune staff from 1937 to 1990," a donation of "hundreds of thousands of negatives," and the rights sentence this build prints wherever the collection is described: "The Tribune maintains the copyright to all images and clippings contained in the collection, which have been reproduced for personal and educational purposes." The finding aid dates the whole collection 1937–1999 (bulk 1950–1999). Lakeville school and fire items stand banked from LK-1 as visible in the portal; the portal-level capture of their record titles stands as a named gap in the libraries leg. As a source the archive is the county's picture memory after 1937; as a rights matter it is a reference collection for this build, never a publication source without the Tribune's clearance.