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The Mishawaka City Council Records, 1845–1977 — twenty reels at the Hesburgh Libraries; the build's principal settling archive
What it is: the city's own government archive does not sit in the city: the Mishawaka City Council Records, 1845–1977 — twenty reels of minutes, ordinances, petitions and votes, with the Board of Public Works and Board of Public Safety minutes — are held by the University of Notre Dame Archives, whose ArchivesSpace record the Government leg read. In the same house sit the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ province archive (restricted; its institutional series), where the Mishawaka motherhouse's house annals and the names of the three sisters of 1878 settle, unpulled, and the 1903 South Bend and Mishawaka directory the Bars leg used through its ArchivesSpace record.
Its standing, from this build's experience: no source is named as a settling source more often in this build's notes: the Government leg's gaps 1–9 and 12, the paid fire department's exact organization day in 1904, the street-renaming record behind the Maps leg, the first woman on the Common Council in the Women's History leg, the open-housing ordinance question, the 1905 annexation decision's local course — all of them settle, if they settle, on these twenty reels.
Where it fails: from this build's seat it fails by distance, not by content: the reels are a reading-room source, and every question they settle stands in these files as a named gap with this archive named — the honest state, printed rather than papered over.
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