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The Photographs: A Credits-and-Rights Ledger at Its True Size

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This is a text-research build; its image record is specific and thin, and prints so

What it is: the checklist asks for a photographs ledger, and honesty fixes its size: no photo archive was mined for this history. What the build actually holds is a roster and a set of located images. The roster is the Photographers leg's whole file — the town's makers of images from the daguerreian era forward, with their records: one practitioner's prints at the University of Kansas's Spencer Library (RH PH 539) and a carnival portrait in the Metropolitan Museum's collection (record 917952); the Hostetler Collection's circa-1915 Ball Band view, reached through the Belgian scholarship's citation; the county's indexed aerial and photographic record as the Indiana Historic Photography Initiative counts it (951 county index images; 113,016 plotted statewide; 39,992 in the geological archive) and the Agriculture Department's aerial catalog for the county. The located images the text legs used are few and named: the city's own published photograph of the 2024 City Hall plaque, transcribed first-hand for the Wars roll; the marker photographs behind the historical-marker database's entries; the displayed 1917 recruits photograph in the library's Heritage Room.

Its standing, from this build's experience: every image named above is named with its carrier, which is the credits discipline this build can honestly claim: carrier, collection and record number where the record gives them. Rights were not cleared, because no image was republished — the build is text, and the photographs it will eventually wear are a later pass's work, assigned by the project's finishing order to the publication stage, where credits and rights are verified image by image.

Where it fails: the two collections that would feed such a pass — the public library's Heritage Room photographs and the South Bend library's photograph holdings across the river — stand as named routes, unmined; and one collection that should feed it, the school museum's, is the open question above. The ledger prints thin because the record is thin; padding it would be the one unforgivable entry in this section.

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Source: The Photographs: A Credits-and-Rights Ledger at Its True Size, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/mishawaka/sources/photographs-a-credits-and-rights-ledger-at-its-true/