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AUDIT ROW #350 · 1845–1860 · THE SEARCHES NAMED, THE RESULT STATED
Person by person, as the checklist orders, the daguerreian decade was searched for a Walkerton sitter's artist — and there is no one to name, because in the 1850s there was barely a Walkerton. The ground was being settled in that decade (the Island district west of town dates its settlement 1845–1855; the town itself was platted in the 1850s and not incorporated until 1877), and the county and directory record of the decade holds no photographer — resident or visiting — tied to this ground. The searches are printed so the negative can be weighed: the county histories' business notices, the early directory record, and the state photographic annals as indexed were each run under the town's and township's names, and each returned the settlement record and nothing photographic. A tested negative at full search strength is a complete leg item; this is one, and its honesty is its brevity.