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Some of the maps in this section were evidence. These were arguments. Booster cartography — the map drawn to persuade a buyer, a settler or a passenger — touches this ground in three named forms, and this article names the persuasion in each, as the register requires, rather than letting the sheets pass as neutral record. (1) The wall map's margins. The 1863 Stokes map of #136 carries, worked into its borders, views of residential, public and commercial buildings — the county's prosperous houses and businesses engraved as display. A landownership map tells a man who owns the county; its views tell him the county is worth owning into. The two messages hang on the same linen, and the second is advertising by any honest name. (2) The subscription atlas's whole economy. The 1875 Higgins, Belden atlas — the banked plates this build reads for plat geometry, in Neighborhoods — was sold by subscription, its patrons' names lettered on their farms and its directory carrying its subscribers' trades; the Sources leg's caution (a name's presence bought, its absence proving nothing) is the booster function stated as a reading rule. The atlas's town plates draw Walkerton and West Troy complete and handsome twenty years after their filings — the plats as their proprietors and patrons wished them seen, a railroad town presented in the year the second railroad arrived, with the county history the same volume carries telling the valley's story as a progress from trails to rails. The plates are used in this build for geography and occupancy, which they prove; as portraits of the town's importance, which is what they were sold as, they are persuasion, and they are cited nowhere in this build for importance. (3) The traveller persuaded. The booster sheet of the automobile age in the county list is named with unusual candour: "All Roads Lead to South Bend," issued by the South Bend Association of Commerce in 1930 — a road map whose title is its argument, drawing the county's roads (Walkerton's among them) as tributaries of the county seat's trade. Railroad promotion, the register's second named form, touches this ground at pointer size only: the railroads that built the town promoted the region they served as a class of publication, but no railroad promotional map or pamphlet map naming Walkerton was reached in this section, and none is claimed; the town's railroad-era persuasion ran in print the banked legs already hold — its newspapers and its 1907 county-history portrait ("southwestern capital") — rather than in a promotional sheet this record can name.
Closure: DUG — booster cartography named as persuasion in its three reached forms (1863 views; the 1875 subscription economy; the 1930 commerce sheet); railroad promotion maps touching this ground a stated negative at the size reached, settler the railroads' promotional-literature record and the society museum's ephemera.
Sources: Library of Congress record for the Stokes map, 1863 (views of residential, public and commercial buildings), as read at #136; Sources and Neighborhoods legs of this build (the 1875 atlas's subscription character; the plates read); Indiana State Library, St.