IU South Bend, the Indiana Archives, and the State Library

The Schurz Library archives; the state routes the legs used

IU South Bend: the Archives at Indiana University South Bend, in the Schurz Library, is the campus repository for the university's own records and for donated collections documenting the wider Michiana community — among them the papers the Black History and Communities legs cite (the Allen papers, the Hering House record), the campus's Civil Rights movement documentation, oral histories, and a large photograph collection. For the twentieth-century city — the union locals, the civil-rights decades, the campus's own growth — it is the third archive of the city, after the library's and the museum's.

The state routes: three Indiana state doors were used hard. The Indiana Archives and Records Administration (IARA) holds the GAR Department of Indiana records, whose finding aid's second volume — a by-county index — is the Story of South Bend section of the Veterans file's roster work; the same administration's World War I Statement of Service Cards, some 135,800 statewide, are named in the Wars file as the settling pull for the county's served total. The Indiana State Library supplied the Sanborn checklist the maps record rests on (South Bend editions of 1885, 1891, 1893, 1899, and the two-volume 1917 set paste-over-corrected to 1944 and 1949; the IU Wells Library is the state's designated Sanborn repository), the county maps and atlas listings quoted in Part One, and the Technical Guide for Library Redistricting (updated September 2026) from which the Libraries file prints the eight-township district verbatim. The Indiana Historical Bureau's marker program is the third door — its marker texts are cited in this history as the state's word, and checked like any other source; one marker's research (for Elizabeth Fletcher Allen) is exactly where the Assembly of this history has a live conflict to settle, the marker's research giving a House seat to J. Chester Allen where the People file prints her service from a secondary account.

Sources:

1. IU South Bend Archives (Schurz Library) — the repository's own description of its holdings.
2. Indiana Archives and Records Administration — the GAR Department of Indiana finding aid; the Statement of Service Cards.
3. Indiana State Library — the Sanborn checklist, the county maps and holdings guides, the library redistricting technical guide.