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Chicago: Higgins, Belden & Co., 1875 — the Penn Township plate read from the page image
What it is: An Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Joseph County, the nineteenth-century atlas of the checklist. For this build its load-bearing leaf is the Penn Township plat (pp. 86–87), which is leaf 90 of the archive.org item illustratedhisto00higg. Joseph Iron Company's 40 acres and the Milburn Wagon Company's 81 drawn on the plate. The atlas's own Penn Township sketch on the same leaf (p. 86) was read with it.
Its standing, from this build's experience: it is the only whole-township land record the build holds at first hand, and it both confirmed and corrected the book shelf: against Chapman's text it produced two divergences the build prints whole and does not reconcile — Eller (Chapman's 250 acres of 1880 against the plate's roughly 109 of 1875) and Jones (Chapman's Aaron Jones, section 32, 400 acres and more, has no parcel on the plate at all).
Where it fails: the great marsh is not drawn, and the atlas's own Mishawaka-and-Penn directory (pp. 60, 66, 76, 82, 84) was located in its index but not read — it stands on the pull list. The later Standard Atlas of 1895 stands at attestation strength only in this build: no catalog record reached names its imprint, and the settling sources are the Ancestry land-ownership set and the South Bend public library's shelved "Standard Atlas 1895, 1911" holding.
Sources:
- The Pending Research Catalog's Mishawaka rows — the 1895 imprint item and its named settling sources.