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No carrier opened states any Carnegie grant, Carnegie building, or Carnegie era for the library of South Bend, Indiana; the "South Bend Carnegie" in the records is South Bend, Washington. The test matters because this county's smaller libraries run on Carnegie money — New Carlisle's library was founded on a $9,000 Carnegie grant of 1917, dug whole in New Carlisle's build — and a reader will assume the county system had the same start. It did not, on the record reached: the system's own line runs Board-of-Education land purchase to "The Castle" of 1896 to demolition in 1958, with no Carnegie step anywhere in it. The one "South Bend Carnegie Public Library" record that surfaces in searching is a National Park Service survey form for South Bend, Washington — a different town across the continent, named here so the build never imports it. The negative prints at the strength of the carriers read; Waterson's 1994 history of the system, read first-hand, and the Carnegie Corporation's grant records behind it, are the settlers that would close the question affirmatively or negatively for good (G-LIB-6).