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Thirteenth Census, vol. IX (Manufactures, 1909) — narrative and table read from rendered page images
What it is: the industrial census at its best-documented point. The Fashion leg read the 1909 manufactures volume from its page images: the narrative sentence (p. 312) that the state's only rubber-footwear establishment in 1909 was Mishawaka's, and the table III cities row (pp. 336–337) — establishments, wage earners, wages, materials, products, value added — read digit by digit, because the volume's text layer scrambles the table's columns. The row's alignment was locked by the chapter's own arithmetic: the products of the five cities newly past ten thousand sum to exactly the chapter's printed total, $23,662,684.
Its standing, from this build's experience: this is the build's model of a table read: image over text layer, and the document's own arithmetic as the check. The same discipline — read the face, tally against the maker's own totals — governs the Honor List transcription in the war-records entry below.
Where it fails: one census does not make a series: the city rows of the manufactures censuses stand printed in the Industrial Revolution section, from the Abstract’s Table 193, pulled and read whole after the failure recorded above — and the 1858 manufactures values reach the build through Ward Baker's article, at article strength.
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