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AUDIT ROW #354 · THE TRANSITION AS THE DIRECTORY RECORD SHOWS IT
The Kodak revolution reached every American town the same way — film and cameras over the drug-store counter, processing by mail, the portrait studio's monopoly gone — and Walkerton's directory record shows the standard shape: a resident photographer in the 1880s, one more in 1916–17, and no studio line at all in the interwar directories the banked set carries.What is documented is the outcome the pattern produced everywhere and here: after Fitzgerald's 1916–17 line, the directory record of this town names no photographer again, and the camera work of Walkerton's twentieth century was done by its families, its school, and its paper. The fuller directory run (1900–1930, consecutive) is the settler for the transition's exact local dates.
Principal sources: Businesses (the directory sightings and their cessation; the drug-house lines), pointed to; settler named — consecutive directory runs, 1900–1930.