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The Sanborn Negative — Two Lists Read, One Name-Check Outstanding

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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 between LaGrange and Lapel; and a Library of Congress Sanborn search returns no Lakeville, Indiana item. This pass located the final-form settler's corpus: Indiana University holds a near-complete collection of the state's Sanborn maps, the public-domain editions digitized; the IndianaView project archived 11,517 Indiana Sanborn images (1883–1966) on the Indiana Spatial Data Portal, the pre-1924 images (87 percent) downloadable. The alphabetical city list itself was not opened and the name-check not run. Gap G-S9 therefore stands sharpened, not closed: its settler is a single look — "Lakeville" in the IU Union List's city list or the Portal's inventory. The negative matters to the build and prints with its weight: for most Indiana towns the Sanborn sheets are the building-by-building record of the business district; Lakeville's built course must be carried by the atlas, the histories, and the Register nomination instead, as this build's other legs carry it.

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Source: The Sanborn Negative — Two Lists Read, One Name-Check Outstanding, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/sources/sanborn-negative-two-lists-read-one-name-check-outstanding/