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What it is: the county's museum archive — successor to the Northern Indiana Historical Society, organized 1867, the institution whose 1926-era county work stands behind so much of the region's record — holding on the order of six hundred thousand items in its archives, worked through the Vincent Bendix Research Library and its reading room, archives by appointment (archives@historymuseumsb.org). Its named strength for genealogical and county work is the Jeanne Denham Collection of Michiana history and genealogical material — eighty-one archival boxes, indexed by the South Bend Area Genealogical Society — the kind of gathered private archive in which a township's families surface whole. The museum is also the repository of record for collections beyond this town's ground (the national women's baseball archives among them), which is printed as a boundary: its county depth is real, and its New Carlisle depth is the county's depth — strong on the region, derivative on the town — and the build cites it at that strength.
Principal sources: The History Museum's published collection and research descriptions, read first-hand; the South Bend Area Genealogical Society's indexing record for the Denham Collection as carried in the society's materials.