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- The wagon century: the largest vehicle house in the world Studebaker
- The wagon era beside Studebaker — Winkler Brothers and the wagon shops Businesses
- "The wagon that won the Boer War" Famous Stories & the Record
- The wagon trade: a continent first Exports
- The wagon works as a system Industrial Revolution
- The wagon works burned, twice · and the city watched it rebuild bigger Major Events
- Wagons and plows: the founding shops The Story of South Bend
- Wagons to the world: the foreign shipments Exports
- The Walkout: August 30, 1952 South Bend Blue Sox
- War Heroes Section
- War industry as military presence · the proving ground and the ordnance plants Military
- War Service Records: What Remains Open Wars, Unrest & Disasters
- The war years: the showrooms empty Dealerships
- The war years: training at both fields, and the base that went elsewhere Airports
- Wars, Unrest & Disasters Section
- Washington High School Schools & Colleges
- The Washington House Hotels
- Washington Street, Portage Avenue, and Camp Rose Fairs
- Water and the alarm: cisterns, the standpipe, and the Gamewell boxes Fire & Public Safety
- The Water Level Route: Lake Shore & Michigan Southern to New York Central Railroads
- The Web as a System Schools & Colleges
- Welsheimer Funeral Home — 521 North William, across three directories Businesses
- The west race and the riverfront works Industrial Revolution
- The West Side Democratic & Civic Club Private Clubs
- The west side plats: a working city's grid Neighborhoods
- The west side's halls: the Dyngus circuit Bars & Nightclubs
- West Washington and the Near West Side Neighborhoods
- The West Washington fight and the district of 1975 Historic Preservation
- The West Washington Historic District — the Street the Industrial City Built Architecture
- The west-side press: Polish, German, and Hungarian papers Newspapers & Media
- What farms remain, and what they grow Farms & Crops
- What is being built South Bend Today
- What is not digitized: the consolidated pull list Sources
- What is open South Bend Today
- What South Bend built for its children Kids & Family Entertainment
- What Survived: The Museum, the Marker, the Memory South Bend Blue Sox
- What the hub era left, and the 2018 map Airports
- The wheat era and its passing Farms & Crops
- Wheel Horse in the directories, 1949–1971 — the cross-reference the Tractors record owed Businesses
- Wheel Horse: forty years of garden tractors built in South Bend Tractors
- Wheelbarrow Johnny Folklore
- Where the money goes Lottery & Crypto
- Whistle-stops, airport crowds, and rally nights Events Calendar
- Whitcomb & Keller — the subdividers Businesses
- The White Sox years, 1988–1997 Sports
- A whitewater course in the mill race Strange but True
- Why "Blue Sox"? The Worked Example of an Honest Blank Historical Mysteries
- The wild turkey: gone by the new century, restored by release Wildlife
- Wildlife Section
- William Gibson: a photographer of 1860, on both sides of the city line Photographers
- Wilson Brothers — the shirt factory Businesses
- Wineries & Distilleries Section
- WNIT: public television's producers Film & TV Producers
- Wolves, panthers, and bears: the departed predators Wildlife
- The women's clubs: the Literary Club, the Progress Club, and their circle Private Clubs
- The women's half of the lodge world Lodges & Fraternal Orders
- Women's History Section
- Wooded Estates and the postwar east side Neighborhoods
- The Woodmen and the Red Men Lodges & Fraternal Orders
- The woodworking cluster Industrial Revolution
- Wool first: the river mills and the underwear trade Fashion
- Work dress: H. D. Lee's South Bend factory Fashion
- The Worker's Home — one small house, two tellings Museums
- The working city map: street sheets, 1876–2005 Historic Maps
- The working day Industrial Revolution
- The working river: keelboats, steamboats, and the lock that leaked The St. Joseph River
- The working scene: the comics under the marquee Comedy
- Working women: sewing rooms, the sit-down, and the war Women's History
- The works divided — Bosch, Honeywell, and the wheels-and-brakes plant Technology
- The works today: two buildings, a cleared campus, and a new name on the map Studebaker
- A world-record attempt, in costume, at the Morris Strange but True
- The WPA Cat House Zoo
- The wrecks the record keeps Railroads
- WSBT radio: the Tribune's station, from WGAZ to 960 Newspapers & Media
- WWI Home Front Section
- Wyman's — two generations on Michigan Street Businesses