{ "id": "bb-1908-01-17", "title": "A $10 prize for a Bend medallion", "publisher": "The Bend Bulletin", "sourceClass": "primary", "url": "https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn96088235/1908-01-17/ed-1/seq-1/", "accessedOn": "2026-09-11", "notes": "The Bend Commercial Club offers a prize for a circular advertising device for its stationery, four and a half years before the emblem’s earliest located publication. The word “emblem” does not occur.", "record": "https://bendemblem.com/archive/bb-1908-01-17/", "evidence": { "id": "bb-1908-01-17", "kind": "history", "date": "1908-01-17", "summary": "Bend ran a public design competition for a small circular advertising device in January 1908.", "findings": [ "Under the headline WIN THIS PRIZE, the Commercial Club’s directors offer $10 for the best idea for “a medallion or sort of trade mark to be used by the club in its advertising”, submitted as a sketch to A. M. Lara by January 31.", "The brief asks that the design portray the advertising of Bend and the Bend country, that the country’s various resources be represented, and that it reduce to about the size of a 25-cent piece and stay distinct. The medallion was to be printed on members’ stationery." ], "limitations": [ "No winner, sketch or adopted design is reported here or in any issue read through June 30, 1908.", "Nothing connects this competition to the 1912 emblem, which is attributed to the Bend Park Company rather than the Commercial Club.", "The brief describes a landscape or resource composite, which resembles the City’s later seal more than a letter device." ], "objects": [ { "path": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/1908-01-17-1.pdf", "sha256": "3f97cba6acd4f2804ab33a9a57524e63d0de64a846cfffef056937f4df600e0f", "url": "https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn96088235/1908-01-17/ed-1/seq-1/", "accessedOn": "2026-09-11", "role": "Received source bytes" } ], "images": [ { "original": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/1908-01-17-1.pdf", "page": 1, "box": [ 976, 1596, 308, 896 ], "title": "The prize notice on page one.", "rights": "The Bend Bulletin · Historic Oregon Newspapers, University of Oregon; documentary reproduction, excluded from the project artwork license.", "color": true, "width": 1000, "render": "PyMuPDF at 144 dpi; JPEG quality 94", "sha256": "58460c186aef33e0431198faf23a1a98f842ab6bbfa40bd4b820742dcbb6f8dc", "from": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/bb-1908-01-17-page-1.jpg" } ], "family": null, "origin": null, "sourceIds": [], "review": { "status": "image-reviewed", "method": "Complete source page and selected crop inspected visually; OCR used only to locate the passage.", "reviewedOn": "2026-09-11" } }, "measurement": [], "appearances": [], "appearanceLeads": [], "exhibit": { "id": "bb-1908-01-17", "title": "A $10 prize for a Bend medallion", "intro": "Four and a half years before the emblem appears, Bend offered ten dollars for a circular mark to print on its stationery.", "body": [ "The Bend Commercial Club’s directors wanted a device of their own. The sketch had to reduce to the size of a 25-cent piece and still read plainly, and it was to be printed on the stationery of every member.", "The word “emblem” appears nowhere in the notice, which is why a newspaper sweep that read all of 1908 could not see it: the search was for a word, and the story was told in other words. 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The idea must be embodied in a sketch and submitted to the committee not later than two weeks from today, or on Jan. 31. A. M. 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