Where the Maps Are Held

The repositories as the reader's route; the public-domain inventory the Procedure requires

A map record is only as good as its addresses. The Library of Congress Geography and Map Division holds the record's two federal pillars in digital form: the 1863 Stokes & Shober county map (item 2013593163) and the Sanborn editions, with the Sanborn database as the collection's own index. The Indiana State Library's Indiana collection is the record's bibliography and its reading room in one: its published St. Ball State University Libraries' digital collections serve the atlas plates online — the 1875 Higgins, Belden and the 1911 Ogle at full image — the working route for any reader who needs the town plan tonight. Indiana University's Wells Library is the state's designated Sanborn repository, and its Indiana Spatial Data Portal serves the Indiana Sanborn scans. The St. Joseph County Public Library's Local & Family History map case, inventoried in its Michiana Memory finding aid, holds the working sheets no one else kept — the 1876 joint plan (digitized in Michiana Memory), Hibberd's 1908 Mishawaka, the district and cemetery maps, the lock survey notes — and the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library's Local & Family History room lists Maps among its own in-house research materials, beside its Mishawaka Memories digital archive: the home library is a map repository too, at the size its own pages state. The U.S. Geological Survey's topoView and National Map archive serve every quadrangle in the federal succession without charge.

For the site build, the Procedure requires a banked inventory of public-domain image sets, with holder and rights basis. It stands here. The 1875 atlas plates: public domain by age of publication; images served by Ball State's digital collections and the volume's text and plates at the Internet Archive. The 1863 county map: public domain; served by the Library of Congress. The 1911 Ogle atlas: public domain by age; served by Ball State. The Sanborn editions of 1886–1913: public domain — the Library of Congress states that all public-domain Sanborn maps have been digitized — and served by the Library and by Indiana University's portal; post-1924 Sanborn material, if later editions are ever confirmed for Mishawaka, does not travel on this basis and must be linked, not republished. The 1876 joint plan: public domain by age; digitized by the county library in Michiana Memory. The USGS historical quadrangles and US Topo sheets: works of the federal government, public domain; served by the Survey. Every set above is linkable and, on the basis stated, reproducible in the build; no other map image in this section carries a reproduction basis, and none is claimed.

Three gaps stand open at this section's close, each with its settling source named in its entry: the Sanborn sheet counts and the existence of any post-1913 Mishawaka edition, settled by the Library of Congress Sanborn database or the 1981 checklist; the 1895 atlas's imprint, settled by the title page of the county library's shelved copy; and the 1927 Niles sheet's coverage of Mishawaka's ground, settled by the 1:62,500 topographic inventory or topoView. None of the three is papered over anywhere in this build, and each will print, when settled, at the size its settling source gives.

Sources:

1. Indiana State Library, St. Joseph County maps list (the Indiana map collection's published county bibliography).
2. Ball State University Libraries, digital collections: the Indiana historic atlases (1875; 1911) at full image.
3. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division: the 1863 county map item; the Sanborn collection and its resource guide.
4. Indiana University: Wells Library as the state's designated Sanborn repository; the Indiana Spatial Data Portal.
5. St. Joseph County Public Library (Michiana Memory) and Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library (Local & Family History; Mishawaka Memories): the local repositories and their published holdings statements.
6. U.S. Geological Survey: topoView and The National Map.