{ "id": "chamber-swan-1998", "title": "The Chamber’s swan, three years before its roundel", "publisher": "Bend Chamber of Commerce", "sourceClass": "primary", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/19980512103233/http://bendchamber.org/", "accessedOn": "2026-09-11", "notes": "The Chamber’s captured mark in 1998 is a swan device, not the emblem. Its 2001 file shows the roundel.", "record": "https://bendemblem.com/archive/chamber-swan-1998/", "evidence": { "id": "chamber-swan-1998", "kind": "history", "date": "May 12, 1998", "summary": "In May 1998 the Chamber’s captured mark is a swan and diamond, not the emblem.", "findings": [ "A red diamond holding a white swan, beside the words BEND CHAMBER and Visitor & Convention Bureau.", "The same organisation’s 2001 file shows a BEND roundel, so this is a point in a sequence rather than a settled identity." ], "limitations": [ "One captured file is evidence about that file. It does not establish what the Chamber used elsewhere in 1998, in print, or on pages not captured.", "This record exists partly to correct an inference drawn from it during research: that the Chamber had left the emblem behind. Its own 2001 file disproved that." ], "objects": [ { "path": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/chamber-1998-sidebarlogo7.gif", "sha256": "7878abb9ce380967d3217386202266772d56a09b9ae8936eda6129768dd3d102", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/19980512103233/http://bendchamber.org/", "accessedOn": "2026-09-11", "role": "Received source bytes" } ], "images": [ { "original": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/chamber-1998-sidebarlogo7.gif", "page": null, "box": null, "title": "The Chamber’s device, captured in May 1998.", "rights": "Documentary reproduction of a third-party mark, retrieved from the Internet Archive. No project license or fabrication permission is granted.", "color": true, "width": 900, "render": "Source raster; no drawing reconstruction", "sha256": "7878abb9ce380967d3217386202266772d56a09b9ae8936eda6129768dd3d102", "from": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/chamber-1998-sidebarlogo7.gif" } ], "family": null, "origin": null, "sourceIds": [], "review": { "status": "image-reviewed", "method": "Retrieved image inspected at full size; the source URL was confirmed against the harvester cache.", "reviewedOn": "2026-09-11" } }, "measurement": [], "appearances": [], "appearanceLeads": [], "exhibit": { "id": "chamber-swan-1998", "title": "The Chamber’s swan, three years before its roundel", "intro": "Three years before the roundel, the Chamber’s website carried a swan.", "body": [ "The Bend Chamber descends from the Commercial Club that adopted the emblem as Bend’s in 1922, so what it puts on its own masthead is worth knowing. In May 1998 that was a red diamond with a white swan.", "The Chamber adopted that bird by competition fourteen years before this capture. In July 1984 it ran a contest for a new logo, judged thirty entries, and gave the prize to a Bend artist named Ed Carson; the Bulletin printed the winner, and it is a black rectangle with BEND in knocked-out letters, a landscape inside them, and a swan standing in the B. This masthead is that bird, on its own. The bird itself is older than the contest: the Bend Water Pageant put a great white swan on Mirror Pond every July, and in 1964 the Chamber’s own manager was among the three men checking the float wiring. That is where the swan was already living, which is not the same as saying the winning design came from it.", "So the swan is not a gap between roundels. It is a chosen identity with a date, a jury and a prize behind it, and it is still the Chamber’s own mark in August 2001 — on the same page where the Chamber’s Visitor and Convention Bureau is using a BEND roundel. What needs explaining is the roundel’s presence on the Bureau’s side, not the swan’s on the Chamber’s.", "The caution this record was originally kept for still stands, and is worth more now than it was: a single capture of a single file was briefly made to carry a claim about a whole decade, the next capture overturned it, and a newspaper notice fourteen years earlier explained both." ], "related": [ "chamber-2001-emblem", "bb-1984-07-17-b1", "bb-1964-07-23-1" ], "date": "May 12, 1998", "collection": "emblems", "images": [ { "name": "plate-1", "from": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/chamber-1998-sidebarlogo7.gif", "original": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/chamber-1998-sidebarlogo7.gif", "page": null, "sha256": "7878abb9ce380967d3217386202266772d56a09b9ae8936eda6129768dd3d102", "box": null, "width": 900, "caption": "The Chamber’s device, captured in May 1998.", "alt": "A red diamond containing a white swan, beside the words Bend Chamber, Visitor and Convention Bureau.", "credit": "Bend Chamber of Commerce · retrieved from the Internet Archive", "sourceUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/19980512103233/http://bendchamber.org/", "color": true, "flattenPreview": true } ], "publication": "Bend Chamber of Commerce" }, "displayAssets": [ { "path": "/archive/chamber-swan-1998/plate-1.webp", "source": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/chamber-1998-sidebarlogo7.gif", "sourceBox": null, "height": 69, "bytes": 2988, "width": 109, "quality": 82, "title": "The Chamber’s device, captured in May 1998.", "rights": "Bend Chamber of Commerce · retrieved from the Internet Archive", "derivation": "Cut from archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/chamber-1998-sidebarlogo7.gif; display source archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/chamber-1998-sidebarlogo7.gif: the full 109×69 px page. 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