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An Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Joseph County, Indiana, Chicago, 1875 — index and plates read from the digitized copy
What it is: the nineteenth-century atlas of the checklist, and for this ground a measuring instrument as much as a book. The atlas's own index, read from the Internet Archive copy (item illustratedhisto00higg), places the New Carlisle plat at page 41, the Olive Township plates at pages 34–35, and the Olive directory of residents at pages 102–103 — the 1875 ground truth against which the build reads the plat geography Howard quotes: section 34, the hundred-foot Michigan Street, the sixty-foot cross streets. The patrons' and landowners' names lettered on the township plates and listed in the directory are occupancy evidence at 1875 strength. Atlases of this class were subscription works — a name's presence was bought, and its absence proves nothing — and the build uses the plates for geography and occupancy, never for completeness. The atlas also stands in this section as a corrected source, which is a kind of strength: Chapman, five years later, prints his disagreement with it on the township's first marriage (see the Chapman article), so the build reads the atlas as a strong witness on the ground and a fallible one on facts — the normal condition of the class, here documented rather than assumed.
Principal sources: the 1875 atlas, index read first-hand from the Internet Archive full text (item illustratedhisto00higg); Chapman (1880) for the printed correction of the atlas on the first-marriage point.