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The studio as a building: no photographer's block on this ground

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AUDIT ROW #351 · SANBORN AND DIRECTORY RECORD, TESTED

In photographic towns of size, the studio was a building type — a skylit top floor on the main street, advertised by its glass — and Walkerton's Sanborn and directory record as reached holds no such building. Ewing worked here for the span the directories show (below), and a working portraitist needs light; but no studio address, skylight, or "photograph gallery" building line stands in the record reached, and the studio-as-building item therefore closes mixed: the test run and printed, the building limb open under its settler — the Sanborn sheet succession for the Illinois Street addresses, read sheet by sheet — rather than asserted either way from a summary. The distinction matters to this build: a photographer is documented; his building is not, and the leg keeps the two in their separate states.

Principal sources: Businesses (the Ewing directory lines), pointed to; settler named — Sanborn fire insurance sheet succession, Illinois Street addresses.

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Source: The studio as a building: no photographer's block on this ground, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/photographers/studio-as-a-building-no-photographer-s-block-on/