The 1956 canvass: twenty-three names

1956 — the postwar commercial crowd, at directory size

The trade grown wide and specialized: The directory sample's 1956 canvass prints twenty-three names under Mishawaka's photography headings — twenty-one under "Photographers—Commercial": Ames R. Templeton, Barzilla M. Hutchinson, Camiel C. Mahank, Carl R. Bassler, Carmelo V. Barone, Chas E. Walters, Chas F. Martin Jr., Chas J. Goethals, Don Henderson, Edw M. Sirlin, Francis C. Whitlock, Harriet Hanley, Jacob Rosenwasser, Jas E. Farner, Julia L. Wixted (Mrs), Leo P. VanRie, Matthew J. Fujawa, Richd A. Ganser, Robt F. Reed, W. Robt Orr and Wendell L. Spalding — and two more under the plain heading "Photographers": Henry F. Stutler and Raymond E. Bigler Jr. The names are printed as the canvass prints them, abbreviations and all, because the canvass is the whole of the record for these practitioners: no courses, studios or survivals are claimed for them here, and the roster fragment carries them as lines of the city's classified economy — its prose noting that the commercial photographers stood among the largest printed families of trades in the postwar canvasses. Two of the twenty-three are women, Harriet Hanley and Julia L. Wixted — a small, real contrast with the neighboring record, where South Bend's fragment found no woman studio proprietor in the records it searched. The count is a count of one year's printed headings in one canvass actually read; it is not extrapolated to any other year, and the settling sources for these twenty-three courses are the 1950 and 1960 censuses, the intervening Polk canvasses and the Tribune

Sources:

1. Cross-reference: Business Owners Directory — the 1956 directory sample's photography headings, all twenty-three names as printed (twenty-one "Photographers—Commercial," two "Photographers"), and the roster's prose on the postwar canvasses.
2. Cross-reference: South Bend build, Photographers — the neighboring fragment's finding on women proprietors in the records it searched.