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A booth in Seattle. A banquet in Bend. An emblem carried from paper into glass, onto cars and into everyday life. Every record this project holds is below, in the order it happened.

250 records, 1908 to 2026 — the complete archive.

• 1900s

• The size of a dollarJanuary 10, 1908The Bend Bulletin
• A $10 prize for a Bend medallionJanuary 17, 1908The Bend Bulletin

• 1910s

• The Commercial Club’s new letterheads describedNovember 16, 1910The Bend Bulletin
• The Bend Park Company and The Bend BookJune 21, 1911The Bend Bulletin
• Judged on the merits of the reasonsNovember 22, 1911The Bend Bulletin
• One hundred dollars for the best reason Bend would growNovember 22, 1911The Bend Bulletin
• The contest, week twoNovember 29, 1911The Bend Bulletin
• The contest, week threeDecember 6, 1911The Bend Bulletin
• The contest, week four and lastDecember 13, 1911The Bend Bulletin
• The emblem in print, 1912July 3, 1912The Bend Bulletin
• The Bend Park Company advertises, without the emblemJuly 17, 1912The Bend Bulletin
• Blue and gold at Seattle’s PotlatchJuly 24, 1912The Bend Bulletin
• A silver cup for Bend’s flowersAugust 21, 1912The Bend Bulletin
• An illuminated emblem on the trainSeptember 4, 1912The Bend Bulletin
• A Hallowe’en lunch for SeattleDecember 4, 1912The Bend Bulletin
• What Others Say About ItDecember 4, 1912The Bend Bulletin
• The first annual banquetJanuary 8, 1913The Bend Bulletin
• A wordless story of SeattleFebruary 5, 1913The Bend Bulletin
• A songfest at Mountain ViewApril 30, 1913The Bend Bulletin
• Rehearsing for PortlandMay 14, 1913The Bend Bulletin
• Sixteen men, namedMay 28, 1913The Bend Bulletin
• A march called The Emblem ClubDecember 24, 1913The Bend Bulletin
• A historian reviews Seattle ContrastsApril 1913Washington Historical Quarterly
• The first annual dinner, in the club’s own wordsJanuary 4, 1913Privately printed, Bend, Oregon
• Dinner at the Drake houseFebruary 11, 1914The Bend Bulletin
• Fishing, hospitality and an arrest hoaxJuly 8, 1914The Bend Bulletin
• Room for two hundred dinersAugust 26, 1914The Bend Bulletin
• A Portland rose for BendSeptember 9, 1914The Bend Bulletin
• A visitor’s thanksSeptember 9, 1914The Bend Bulletin
• “A Community of Good Cheer”September 13, 1914The Oregon Journal
• From Farewell Bend to Welcome BendSeptember 16, 1914The Bend Bulletin
• A baton and two chime clocksOctober 14, 1914The Bend Bulletin
• Dancing for the libraryFebruary 10, 1915The Bend Bulletin
• A banquet for Governor WithycombeJune 30, 1915The Bend Bulletin
• A governor at the Emblem ClubJune 30, 1915The Bend Bulletin
• Bring him, dance him, take him homeJanuary 19, 1916The Bend Bulletin
• The Emblem Club March, and Bend Park beside itJune 14, 1916The Bend Bulletin
• A banquet with whistles and hornsJune 19, 1916The Oregonian
• Rule fourAugust 2, 1916The Bend Bulletin
• Thrown open to them during their stayAugust 9, 1916The Bend Bulletin
• Most artistic arrangement, 1916August 23, 1916The Bend Bulletin
• Glass, pine and advertisingNovember 1, 1916The Bend Bulletin
• The new O’Kane BuildingNovember 22, 1916The Bend Bulletin
• We entertained an angel unawaresNovember 29, 1916The Bend Bulletin
• The best advertised town in the northwestJanuary 18, 1917The Bend Bulletin
• The company that owned it was still using it, 1917February 8, 1917The Bend Bulletin
• A club founded in the clubFebruary 16, 1917The Bend Bulletin
• Bend Emblem ButterFebruary 20, 1917The Bend Bulletin
• Privileges, not membershipMarch 27, 1917The Bend Bulletin
• The building comes up for sale seven years earlyApril 23, 1917The Bend Bulletin
• Fifty tables for the Red CrossApril 28, 1917The Bend Bulletin
• The club hall becomes a barracksMay 2, 1917The Bend Bulletin
• Another order, another banquetMay 11, 1917The Bend Bulletin
• Wednesday, 7:45June 11, 1917The Bend Bulletin
• Bend Shevlin Pine, 1917June 28, 1917The Bend Bulletin
• Regulation arms, if the government sends themAugust 23, 1917The Bend Bulletin
• The same rules, a year onAugust 29, 1917The Bend Bulletin
• Invitations sent out todayDecember 28, 1917The Bend Bulletin
• Five men and a danceDecember 29, 1917The Bend Bulletin
• To reopen clubJanuary 3, 1918The Bend Bulletin
• A smaller number than usualJanuary 26, 1918The Bend Bulletin
• Officers and thrift stampsFebruary 27, 1918The Bend Bulletin
• Two of the junior boysApril 30, 1918The Bend Bulletin
• The founder wires from SeattleMay 27, 1918The Bend Bulletin
• A Saturday dinner for bankersJune 4, 1918The Bend Bulletin
• A request for troutJune 5, 1918The Bend Bulletin
• Mr. Cheney arrivesJune 6, 1918The Bend Bulletin
• Emblem Club dinner successJune 10, 1918The Bend Bulletin
• A band concert, Emblem Club lawnJune 27, 1918The Bend Bulletin
• A home for the libraryOctober 17, 1918The Bend Bulletin
• The AnswerOctober 19, 1918The Bend Bulletin
• One member, end to endOctober 25, 1918The Bend Bulletin
• Hearts as targetsFebruary 14, 1919The Bend Bulletin
• True Irish hospitalityMarch 14, 1919The Bend Bulletin
• Ten men take on the debtApril 25, 1919The Bend Bulletin
• Cheney gives his equityMay 2, 1919The Bend Bulletin
• The clubhouse, photographedMay 10, 1919The Bend Bulletin
• Statements of duesMay 17, 1919The Bend Bulletin
• Memorial Day at the hallJune 5, 1919The Bend Bulletin
• The Elks gather at the Emblem ClubJune 24, 1919The Bend Bulletin
• Another lodge, born in the roomJune 27, 1919The Bend Bulletin

• 1920s

• The lady-members and the men membersMarch 8, 1920The Bend Bulletin
• Blue and gold, the club colorsMarch 15, 1920The Bend Bulletin
• Both cups, four months before the showApril 8, 1920The Bend Bulletin
• Merely for convenienceJune 5, 1920The Bend Bulletin
• Early in JulyJune 18, 1920The Bend Bulletin
• An airline, decided in the clubhouseJune 30, 1920The Bend Bulletin
• A visiting speaker looks aheadJuly 29, 1920The Bend Bulletin
• The ladies' auxiliary of the clubAugust 7, 1920The Bend Bulletin
• The last show was in 1917August 14, 1920The Bend Bulletin
• Such a historic buildingAugust 18, 1920The Bend Bulletin
• A small fire at the clubhouseAugust 19, 1920The Bend Bulletin
• Two rules for one cupAugust 19, 1920The Bend Bulletin
• In the window of Larson & Co.August 23, 1920The Bend Bulletin
• Five varieties, artistically arrangedAugust 25, 1920The Bend Bulletin
• Pink hollyhocksSeptember 2, 1920The Bend Bulletin
• The trustee conveysSeptember 11, 1920The Bend Bulletin
• A regular monthly luncheonNovember 6, 1920The Bend Bulletin
• Where the Chamber wrote its rulesNovember 13, 1920The Bend Bulletin
• Wives, and members, in one paragraphDecember 18, 1920The Bend Bulletin
• A buck's head for the clubroomFebruary 3, 1921The Bend Bulletin
• No bank, Emblem club, no Commercial clubFebruary 5, 1921The Bend Bulletin
• Blue and gold againApril 9, 1921The Bend Bulletin
• Twenty young kittens at the Emblem ClubApril 20, 1921The Bend Bulletin
• A week at the Emblem ClubApril 23, 1921The Bend Bulletin
• The circular Bend emblemMay 5, 1921The Bend Bulletin
• A farewell for T. A. McCannJuly 20, 1921The Bend Bulletin
• Over the hillJuly 28, 1921The Bend Bulletin
• The old songs returnAugust 18, 1921The Bend Bulletin
• Six competitorsAugust 23, 1921The Bend Bulletin
• A charter member, in her own rightAugust 27, 1921The Bend Bulletin
• Seventy membersNovember 19, 1921The Bend Bulletin
• Ten kittens and a tigerDecember 12, 1921The Bend Bulletin
• New officers for 1922January 10, 1922The Bend Bulletin
• A snowball burst from the ceilingJanuary 21, 1922The Bend Bulletin
• The Bend Co. to Emblem clubJanuary 28, 1922The Bend Bulletin
• Their club home on BroadwayFebruary 18, 1922The Bend Bulletin
• A gavel and a juniper blockApril 5, 1922The Bend Bulletin
• Device a proven successApril 6, 1922The Bend Bulletin
• An emblem for automobilesJune 15, 1922The Bend Bulletin
• Permission to spread the emblemJune 22, 1922The Bend Bulletin
• Eighty blister feet crossing burning sandsAugust 8, 1922The Bend Bulletin
• Not less than five varietiesAugust 10, 1922The Bend Bulletin
• Cups fail to change handsAugust 23, 1922The Bend Bulletin
• The cup stays with Mrs. HudsonAugust 24, 1922The Bend Bulletin
• The club votes to disbandMay 13, 1924The Bend Bulletin
• What the club left to BendMay 23, 1924The Bend Bulletin
• The emblem travels with the Lumberjack BandJune 16, 1925The Bend Bulletin
• Bend's twelfth annualJuly 11, 1925The Bend Bulletin
• The emblem made of forest, 1925September 19, 1925The Bend Bulletin
• A solid silver trophy cupAugust 4, 1927The Bend Bulletin
• A Bend emblem on the lumbermen’s programAugust 19, 1927The Bend Bulletin
• The rules outlive the clubAugust 20, 1927The Bend Bulletin
• A trophy beyond the club’s lifetimeAugust 22, 1927The Bend Bulletin
• The fourteenth annualAugust 22, 1927The Bend Bulletin

• 1930s

• What the Emblem Club cup was for in 1933August 10, 1933The Bend Bulletin
• The Emblem cup in 1933August 12, 1933The Bend Bulletin
• A miniature on a mirror, and a winner for 1937August 16, 1938The Bend Bulletin
• The club’s last recorded giftAugust 27, 1938The Bend Bulletin
• Who’s Who in Bend, 1939February 1, 1939The Bend Bulletin
• The disbanding, reprinted fifteen years laterMay 13, 1939The Bend Bulletin
• Remembering the Masons’ purchaseJuly 19, 1939The Bend Bulletin
• The first show was held on August 19, 1911August 10, 1939The Bend Bulletin
• The cup awarded three months after the endAugust 21, 1939The Bend Bulletin

• 1940s

• Five cups in a shop windowAugust 10, 1940The Bend Bulletin
• Still given, though the club no longer existsAugust 20, 1941The Bend Bulletin
• The most points in the vegetable displayAugust 27, 1942The Bend Bulletin
• Remembering Bill CheneyFebruary 12, 1943The Bend Bulletin
• Thirty years ago, sixteen namesMay 29, 1943The Bend Bulletin
• Five cups, five classesAugust 14, 1943The Bend Bulletin
• Plants in dulled colorsAugust 18, 1943The Bend Bulletin
• An Emblem cup in wartimeAugust 19, 1943The Bend Bulletin
• The emblem twice, in the war yearsSeptember 1, 1943The Bend Bulletin
• Blooms featured at garden showSeptember 23, 1943The Bend Bulletin
• Twenty-five years ago, a dancing partyFebruary 14, 1944The Bend Bulletin
• Part of its program for the St. Patrick's ballMarch 14, 1944The Bend Bulletin
• Sixty Elks, twenty-five years onJune 27, 1944The Bend Bulletin
• What the Honey Bee meant to BendFebruary 10, 1945The Bend Bulletin
• Ten new members, and one wrong letterDecember 12, 1946The Bend Bulletin
• Thirty-five years of the Emblem Club cupAugust 15, 1947The Bend Bulletin
• The house from which Bend grewAugust 25, 1948The Bend Bulletin
• A new banner, the same emblemAugust 24, 1949The Bend Bulletin

• 1950s

• The letter that turned round, 1950August 16, 1950The Bend Bulletin
• A year the archive lostAugust 17, 1951The Bend Bulletin
• Number of Inhabitants, Oregon, 19501952U.S. Census Bureau
• Bend Iron Works marks fifty yearsJune 16, 1953The Bend Bulletin
• The Chamber's own emblem, 1953June 16, 1953The Bend Bulletin
• What of its future?April 14, 1955The Bend Bulletin
• Forty-nine cents, at 916 Wall StreetMarch 15, 1956The Bend Bulletin
• Little of the building can be salvagedJune 29, 1956The Bend Bulletin
• O’Kane’s building at fortySeptember 5, 1956The Bend Bulletin

• 1960s

• A hummer and a comerNovember 10, 1962The Bend Bulletin
• The swan was already Bend’sJuly 23, 1964The Bend Bulletin
• A last bottle with an old friend1969 letter · reprinted 1981Deschutes Pioneers’ Gazette

• 1970s

• Number of Inhabitants, Oregon, 19701971U.S. Census Bureau

• 1980s

• The Chamber picks a logo, and it is not the emblemJuly 17, 1984The Bend Bulletin
• Original glass and later replacements1986National Register of Historic Places

• 1990s

• Dutch Stover remembered1992National Register of Historic Places
• Population and Housing Unit Counts, Oregon, 19901993U.S. Census Bureau
• The Chamber’s swan, three years before its roundelMay 12, 1998Bend Chamber of Commerce
• The City of Bend’s seal, and what it is notNovember 11, 1998City of Bend

• 2000s

• The emblem on the Chamber’s website, 2001August 14, 2001Bend Chamber of Commerce
• The Chamber keeps its swanDecember 14, 2001Bend Chamber of Commerce
• The same roundel on Visit Bend, in blue and goldApril 2, 2002Visit Bend
• The City’s landscape mark, 2002March 31, 2002City of Bend
• The bureau’s roundel on its own site, 2003January 21, 2003Visit Bend
• Population and Housing Unit Counts, Oregon, 2000September 2003U.S. Census Bureau
• The City's own site, in the centennial yearDecember 22, 2005City of Bend
• Ten souvenirs, with a price eachNovember 21, 2005City of Bend centennial site
• The emblem as a letter OJune 8, 2006Bend Visitor & Convention Bureau
• Downtown Bend’s disc, dated by its own fileNovember 15, 2006Downtown Bend Business Association
• Following the club’s final chapter2007Michael Hall

• 2010s

• Bend in the 2010 censusApril 1, 2010U.S. Census Bureau
• A supplied Bend logo, in the brief’s own wordsMarch 2011LogoTournament
• The City’s landscape mark at 633 px, 2011March 3, 2011City of Bend
• Bend, beer and the Three SistersMarch 30, 2011Bend Brew Wear / LogoTournament
• Downtown Bend’s earlier circle deviceOctober 14, 2011Downtown Bend Business Association
• The emblem in O’Kane’s glass2012Another Believer, Wikimedia Commons
• The museum’s emblem artwork, 2012February 27, 2012Deschutes Historical Museum
• The museum says it out loud, 2013February 20, 2013Deschutes Historical Museum
• Where the social record startsMay 12, 2013Visit Bend
• The artist behind Seize the DayJuly 23, 2014The Source
• Visit Bend changes the letter, 2014March 17, 2014Visit Bend
• The City’s roundel, standing aloneDecember 16, 2016City of Bend
• On an office wall, 2016February 4, 2016Fred Real Estate Group
• A history page’s avatar, dated at lastJuly 28, 2016Vintage Bend
• Seize the DayPhotographed 2017Tim Davis, Places for Everyone
• A new badge for Downtown Bend2018Downtown Bend Business Association
• New sign!February 9, 2018The Bend Store
• The City calls it the Bend bugOctober 30, 2018City of Bend
• An earlier effort to preserve the story2019–2020BendEmblemClub.com working documents
• An estimate passes a hundred thousandJuly 1, 2019U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program
• Behind the daisSeen from August 21, 2019City of Bend

• 2020s

• Bend in the 2020 censusApril 1, 2020U.S. Census Bureau
• Portland State’s estimate for 2020July 1, 2020Population Research Center, Portland State University
• Six years of one stickerJuly 25, 2020Carstickers.com
• Books, songs and a banquetJune 2020The Homesteader
• An old toast, shared againSeptember 2020The Homesteader
• Bend Don’t Break It2021Oregon Secretary of State, 2021 public filing
• The emblem in a business identity2021Oregon Secretary of State, 2021 public filing
• Portland State’s estimate for 2021July 1, 2021Population Research Center, Portland State University
• The lodge beside the riverJune 2021The Homesteader
• Two emblems found on the internet, 2022March 9, 2022Grayson Graham collection
• Visit Bend’s tilted lettersJune 15, 2022Visit Bend
• An emblem for neighborhood gatheringsMay 9, 2023City of Bend
• Visit Bend leaves the roundelJanuary 21, 2024Visit Bend
• Photographs that introduced BendOctober 2024The Homesteader
• The City's mark todayDecember 23, 2025City of Bend
• Portland State's estimate for 2025July 1, 2025Population Research Center, Portland State University
• The Census Bureau's estimate for 2025July 1, 2025U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program
• The toast, again, in 2025October 8, 2025Laura Segura
• About this account2026This project
• A modernisation reference, 2026September 10, 2026Grayson Graham collection
• The Downtown Bend badge, in blackSeptember 11, 2026Savage Skye Design
• At the gate of the water plantJuly 15, 2026City of Bend
• A second disc, drawn by handSeen from June 9, 2026The Bend Store

• Undated

• A Bend emblem to stick somewhereContemporary useThe Bend Store
• A small emblem inside a city landscapeUndatedCity of Bend, Comprehensive Plan, Chapter 8, Exhibit C
• Blue and gold on Downtown Bend’s history pageContemporary useDowntown Bend Business Association
• Born in Bend, on the brewery’s websiteUndatedDeschutes Brewery
• Painted, in an alleyUndatedTin Pan Alley art collection, Bend
• Robert Moore’s club serviceNational Register nominationNational Register of Historic Places
• The banner on the back wallUndatedDeschutes Historical Museum
• The City of Bend’s emblemUndated case studyzöagency
• The emblem at the print shopUndatedBend Rubber Stamp & Printing
• The emblem becomes a heartUndatedThe Sunstone Store
• The emblem on a baseball jerseyUndatedDeschutes Historical Museum
• Three skiers wearing the promiseUndatedDeschutes Historical Museum
• Two clubs in a growing townNational Register studyNational Register of Historic Places
• Two leaves, four corners, one drawingUndatedDeschutes Historical Museum

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