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AUDIT ROW #400 · THE NEGRO MOTORIST GREEN BOOK (1949), FULL TEXT SEARCHED THIS PASS
The 1949 edition of The Negro Motorist Green Book contains no Walkerton entry — the edition was read and text-searched whole, and the town's name does not appear in it. The copy read is the NYPL/Henry Ford edition at archive.org (the 1949 issue, whose Indiana listings begin at page 28); the search covered the whole text, not the Indiana section alone, so the negative is an edition-strength negative, not a sampling. Its meaning is printed with its limits: the Green Book listed businesses in seventeen Indiana cities in its mature years (the Encyclopedia of Indianapolis's count for the era), and a town of Walkerton's size and composition is exactly the kind of place the guide passed by — the absence is consistent with everything the Black-history leg counts, and it is not, by itself, proof that a Black traveller in 1949 would or would not have been served at the Florence House. That second limb — who could register, and who was turned away — has no Walkerton case in the records reached, and is printed as such. The all-editions residue is named precisely: the Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology's "Mapping the Green Book in Indiana" — the state's all-editions GIS of Hoosier listings — is the settler under which any other year's Walkerton listing would appear, and the row closes mixed: one edition dug whole and negative, the run of editions open under the state's instrument.
Principal sources: The Negro Motorist Green Book