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1837–1885
The checklist's last map class is the map as argument, and New Carlisle's file holds two specimens, forty-eight years apart, making the same pitch in different media. The first is this section's hinge: the 1837 lithographed plat with its beautiful view, printed in New York "in numbers" to circulate in the East — a plat drawn not to record the town but to sell it, its streets' widths honest and its emptiness composed, the proprietor's cartography in the pure form. The second is the gazetteer's version of the same act: Polk's 1884–85 description of the town as "an enterprising village of 1,000 inhabitants," a map in words, drawn by a directory canvasser whose business was the appearance of growth, against a census count of 530 rising to 607. Both are printed in this build as what they are — persuasion with a date on it — because a booster document read as boosterism is good evidence twice over: of the town it describes, and of the town its maker needed strangers to believe in. The modern heirs of the class, the data-center announcements' renderings and acreage maps of the Story of New Carlisle section's record, print there under the same rule.
Sources
- This build's The Land — the 1837 lithograph's purpose, as banked; Sources — the Polk entry and its salesman's-figure finding.