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Every museum of the Fort Wayne form carries a founding object — the oldest possession, the thing the collection began with or the thing it holds above the rest. No Mishawaka museum publishes such an object in the record this build has reached. The Mishawaka Historical Museum's own site, read whole for the museums fragment, gives its mission, its exhibit areas and its building's course, but no accession list and no founding object; the Hannah Lindahl's surviving record — the genealogical society's account and the exhibit inventories the fragment uses — inventories exhibits, not accessions, and names no oldest holding; and the university archive across the campus line, Bethel's Bowen Museum & Archives, publishes no collection catalogue in the open record. The class is therefore printed as it stands: searched in each institution's own published record, and not found. The records that would settle it are the institutions' own: the Mishawaka Historical Museum's accession register, the Hannah Lindahl collection's disposition file from its closing, and the Bowen archives' catalogue at Bethel. Until one of those is opened, the oldest-possession line for Mishawaka's museums is the honest one — the city kept museums for most of a century without ever printing the name of the first thing it kept.