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AUDIT ROW #353 · THE SPAN 1877–1917 AND ITS HOLE · SETTLER NAMED
A studio that lasts decades anchors a town's whole visual memory, and Walkerton's record cannot show one: it shows a man in the 1880s and a man in 1916–17, with an unbridged generation between. Whether Ewing's practice ran long under other directory forms, whether a successor held his rooms, and who took the town's portraits between about 1900 and 1916 are questions the directory snapshots cannot answer — the consecutive-directory and newspaper-advertising run that could answer them is the item's named settler, together with the historical society's plate and negative holdings, which would name their makers by their boxes if by nothing else. The row closes as a named gap with the span printed exactly: sightings at 1882–85 and 1916–17; the record between them unbuilt.
Principal sources: Businesses (the two sightings and their dates), pointed to; settlers named — consecutive directory runs and the Independent's advertising columns; Walkerton Area Historical Society plate/negative holdings.