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AUDIT ROW #349 · THE WHOLE SIGHTING RECORD IS TWO NAMES · CHAPMAN, HOWARD, AND THE 1875 ATLAS, TESTED
Before the tests, the frame: every pass of this build together has sighted exactly two photographers on Walkerton ground — George D. Ewing in the 1880s directories and Maurice D. Fitzgerald in 1916–17 — and this section is built at the size that record dictates. The itinerant limb was tested against the three records that would name a travelling daguerreian or tintype man working this ground — Chapman's 1880 county history, Howard's 1907 history, and the 1875 atlas's directory matter — and no itinerant photographer is named for Walkerton in them as reached. That is not surprising and is printed without drama: the town was platted in the 1850s and incorporated in 1877, its first resident photographer (Ewing) appears with its first directories, and the travelling trade of the wet-plate decades served it, if at all, below the threshold of the county histories. The settler for a named itinerant is the town paper's advertising columns from its 1870s founding forward — the Independent's first decades — named here and in the press article below.