{ "id": "bb-1911-06-21", "title": "The Bend Park Company and The Bend Book", "publisher": "The Bend Bulletin", "sourceClass": "primary", "url": "https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn96088235/1911-06-21/ed-1/seq-6/", "accessedOn": "2026-09-11", "notes": "The earliest appearance of the emblem’s copyright holder in the Bulletin, announcing a 58-page booklet and naming its Seattle stockholders.", "record": "https://bendemblem.com/archive/bb-1911-06-21/", "evidence": { "id": "bb-1911-06-21", "kind": "history", "date": "1911-06-21", "summary": "The company that would own the emblem’s copyright appears for the first time, a year before the emblem.", "findings": [ "The Bend Park Company announces “The Bend Book”, a booklet of 58 pages and 67 photographs, bound in brown on tinted paper, advertising Bend and the company’s newly platted addition on the old Goodwillie Tract.", "It names the leading stockholders as W. D. Cheeny, E. B. Summy, J. W. Frerich and N. G. Leithead, all of Seattle.", "A complete reading of the weekly from 1903 to 1913 finds no earlier mention of the company." ], "limitations": [ "The page prints “Cheeny”. Identifying him with W. D. Cheney, the Taboo, rests on initials, city, period and role, and on the same paper spelling Cheney correctly in August 1912. It is an inference, not an established fact.", "No copy of The Bend Book has been located, and nothing establishes that it carried a device.", "The OCR of this page reads 97 photographs and mangles three of the four names; the figures here are read from the page image." ], "objects": [ { "path": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/1911-06-21-6.pdf", "sha256": "0027623a5e19d55eeac20405090c02158faf0e59979a99f83ef442b3f5c02646", "url": "https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn96088235/1911-06-21/ed-1/seq-6/", "accessedOn": "2026-09-11", "role": "Received source bytes" } ], "images": [ { "original": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/1911-06-21-6.pdf", "page": 1, "box": [ 768, 216, 332, 732 ], "title": "The Bend Park Company announces The Bend Book.", "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": "01a6aabf539f80fab04ed66cf6c7603e57ba100cca4e25ac4348d5d9d89f037f", "from": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/bb-1911-06-21-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-1911-06-21", "title": "The Bend Park Company and The Bend Book", "intro": "A year before it published the emblem, the Bend Park Company announced a book about Bend and named the Seattle men behind it.", "body": [ "The emblem’s 1912 notice says the brand belongs to the Bend Park Company. This is that company’s first appearance in the Bend Bulletin, and a complete reading of the paper from 1903 to 1913 finds nothing earlier.", "It arrives as a publisher. The Bend Book ran to 58 pages and 67 photographs, bound in brown, advertising Bend and the company’s new addition southeast of town. Among the Seattle stockholders the paper lists a “W. D. Cheeny” — almost certainly the W. D. Cheney who would become the Emblem Club’s Taboo, though the spelling is the paper’s and the identification is ours.", "No copy of The Bend Book has been found. 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