{ "id": "city-chambers-disc", "title": "The wooden BEND disc in the Bend City Council chambers", "publisher": "KTVZ NewsChannel 21 / Central Oregon Daily photograph", "sourceClass": "primary", "url": "https://cs.npg.tv/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/bend-city-council-1.png", "accessedOn": "2026-09-16", "notes": "A large wooden disc carrying the emblem hangs on the wall behind the dais in the Bend City Council chambers. Earliest located sighting 21 August 2019, in the City's own post; photographed by the Bulletin in January 2023, by KTVZ in September and October 2024, and again in a KTVZ photograph of January 2026.", "record": "https://bendemblem.com/archive/city-chambers-disc/", "evidence": { "id": "city-chambers-disc", "kind": "variant", "date": "Seen from August 21, 2019", "summary": "A large wooden BEND disc on the wall behind the council dais, seen from August 2019 and photographed nine times since.", "findings": [ "The disc is on the wall no later than 21 August 2019, the date of the City's own post showing it.", "Five located sightings between August 2019 and October 2024, by the City, the Bulletin and KTVZ, and the January 2026 news photograph this record is pictured from. One further row is a lead evidenced by a description alone.", "The drawing has the arched third letter — the lower-case n the City itself calls the “Bend bug” — which places it in the bureau roundel, the construction the City's own current mark belongs to. It was filed here as a capital N on 16 September 2026 and re-read the same day at four times enlargement, beside the City's 2016 and 2026 files; the three carry the same arch and the same spur above its left stem.", "The letters stand clear of a heavy ring, the B and E are notched at the same height, and the last letter runs down at one thickness.", "The object is a carving of the emblem held by the City. It is the same construction as the City's own mark, and no document has been found that says who made it, when, or on whose decision." ], "limitations": [ "Undated as an object. Nothing located says who made it, when it was hung, or on whose decision.", "The earliest sighting is a floor, not a date: the disc could be far older than August 2019.", "The City's 2019 post cannot be reproduced here. Four people stand posed in front of the disc and no crop that keeps the ring whole excludes a face, so the picture is a 2026 news photograph and the 2019 post is a citation.", "The reading is from a news photograph at about 145 pixels across, which clears every floor the matrix sets but not by much. The third letter was read wrongly at that size once already." ], "objects": [ { "path": "archive/online-research/2026-09-16-muse-meta-sweep/export/historical/news_photos/ktvz_council_2026.png", "sha256": "ab93ce90f3e99c890f6dbd9b98ccbda23f75ae5576a36071db4011c2168cc9bf", "url": "https://cs.npg.tv/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/bend-city-council-1.png", "accessedOn": "2026-09-16", "role": "Received evidence file, accessioned with the Muse export" } ], "images": [ { "original": "archive/online-research/2026-09-16-muse-meta-sweep/export/historical/news_photos/ktvz_council_2026.png", "page": null, "box": [ 648, 0, 145, 145 ], "title": "The disc on the chamber wall, cut from a January 2026 news photograph.", "rights": "KTVZ NewsChannel 21; documentary reproduction at documentary size for commentary, with attribution and a link. No project license or fabrication permission is granted. Source: https://cs.npg.tv/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/bend-city-council-1.png", "color": true, "width": 320, "render": "Source raster, cut to the object by the box recorded here; no drawing reconstruction", "sha256": "ab93ce90f3e99c890f6dbd9b98ccbda23f75ae5576a36071db4011c2168cc9bf", "from": "archive/online-research/2026-09-16-muse-meta-sweep/export/historical/news_photos/ktvz_council_2026.png" } ], "sourceIds": [ "city-standalone-2016", "dbba-2006-bug" ], "review": { "status": "image-reviewed", "method": "The news photograph was cropped to the disc and enlarged; the third letter was compared directly against the City's own current logo file and against its 2016 standalone file, both in this archive. Read a first time on 16 September 2026 as differing from them, and re-read the same day, side by side at one height, as the same arched letter.", "reviewedOn": "2026-09-16" }, "family": "the-bureau-roundel", "origin": "A wooden disc in the Bend City Council chambers, held by the City of Bend; the maker, the drawing's author, the date and the commission are all unknown." }, "measurement": [ { "id": "city-chambers-disc", "label": "The council chambers disc", "recordId": "city-chambers-disc", "role": "specimen", "family": { "id": "the-bureau-roundel", "name": "The bureau roundel", "diagnostic": "Narrow letters, a notched E and a notched B at the same height, an arched third letter, and rounded corners." }, "standsAlone": false, "construction": "The notched construction", "confidence": "high", "readAt": 134.4, "readAtBasis": "an upper bound: this drawing's letters run into its ring, and no cut separates them", "metrics": [ { "key": "deviceAspect", "label": "Device aspect", "what": "The roundel’s width divided by its height. 1.000 is a true circle; anything else is an oval, or a photograph taken at an angle.", "range": "0.977 – 1.048 across the collection", "value": 1 }, { "key": "wordAspect", "label": "Word aspect", "what": "The same ratio for the block of BEND letters alone, once cropped to their own ink.", "range": "0.927 – 1.862; the high end is lettering set wide rather than stacked", "value": 0.984 }, { "key": "figureInk", "label": "Figure ink", "what": "How much of the drawing is ink rather than ground. A heavy ring and fat letters push it up.", "range": "0.169 – 0.728, median 0.493", "value": 0.5691 }, { "key": "coverage", "label": "Coverage", "what": "How much of the normalised square the letters fill once every drawing is reduced to the same size.", "range": "0.198 – 0.576, median 0.456", "value": 0.4521 } ], "nearest": [ { "id": "bb-1925-09-19-32", "label": "Deschutes County Fair edition, September 1925", "iou": 0.4619, "reading": "different drawings", "href": "/archive/bb-1925-09-19-32/" }, { "id": "dhs-homesteader-2020-06", "label": "Deschutes Historical Museum, June 2020", "iou": 0.4551, "reading": "different drawings", "href": "/archive/dhs-homesteader-2020-06/" }, { "id": "vintage-bend-profile", "label": "Vintage Bend profile rendering", "iou": 0.455, "reading": "different drawings", "href": "/archive/vintage-bend-profile/" } ], "furthest": { "id": "bend-rubber-stamp", "label": "Bend Rubber Stamp & Printing", "iou": 0.2292, "href": "/archive/bend-rubber-stamp/" }, "ties": [], "excludedReason": null, "control": 0.975 } ], "appearances": [ { "id": "muse-026", "of": "city-chambers-disc", "date": "2019-08-21", "dateBasis": "Instagram post date, UTC", "holder": "City of Bend", "object": "Wooden or bronze wall seal behind posed officials in the City Council chamber", "format": "Photograph of the object", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/B1cwendDgJT/", "evidence": "pixel", "note": "No crop is hosted, and this record already said why: four people stand posed in front of the disc and no crop that keeps the ring whole excludes a face. The crop filed on 16 September 2026 did not — a man's face fills its lower left — so it is withdrawn and the post is a citation, which is what the record's own limitations say it is.", "image": null }, { "id": "muse-065", "of": "city-chambers-disc", "date": "2023-01-05", "dateBasis": "Instagram post date, UTC", "holder": "The Bend Bulletin", "object": "The wooden disc on the chamber wall, behind the mayor in a news photograph", "format": "Photograph of the object", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/CnDmaMaraIW/", "evidence": "pixel", "image": { "from": "archive/online-research/2026-09-16-muse-meta-sweep/appearance-crops/muse-065.jpg", "rights": "The Bend Bulletin; documentary reproduction at documentary size for commentary, with attribution and a link. 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Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/C_jmufCN6k_/", "sha256": "28b056743e9e838bf73e168b23b72d529d01d428364509cf0755bb5cf1373d54", "width": 64, "height": 64, "small": "https://bendemblem.com/archive/appearances/muse-090.webp", "large": "https://bendemblem.com/archive/appearances/muse-090-160.webp" } }, { "id": "muse-094", "of": "city-chambers-disc", "date": "2024-10-29", "dateBasis": "Instagram post date, UTC", "holder": "KTVZ NewsChannel 21", "object": "The same chamber disc, at a later meeting, to the right of the flag", "format": "Photograph of the object", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DBu8Tz-NUo1/", "evidence": "pixel", "image": { "from": "archive/online-research/2026-09-16-muse-meta-sweep/appearance-crops/muse-094.jpg", "rights": "KTVZ NewsChannel 21; documentary reproduction at documentary size for commentary, with attribution and a link. Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DBu8Tz-NUo1/", "sha256": "03cc8aa1682263d526393d9cb731f8c062f7d864f75677a12c59f872b0ae40c0", "width": 48, "height": 48, "small": "https://bendemblem.com/archive/appearances/muse-094.webp", "large": "https://bendemblem.com/archive/appearances/muse-094-160.webp" } } ], "appearanceLeads": [ { "id": "muse-038", "of": "city-chambers-disc", "date": "2020-07-30", "dateBasis": "Instagram post date, UTC", "holder": "City of Bend", "object": "Circular wooden wall sign in municipal offices, and a face mask carrying the disc in gold", "format": "Photograph of the object", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/CDSYieAnMEU/", "evidence": "description" } ], "exhibit": { "id": "city-chambers-disc", "title": "Behind the dais", "intro": "The emblem hangs, three feet across and cut in wood, on the wall the city council sits in front of.", "body": [ "Every photograph of a Bend City Council meeting has it in the background: a large wooden disc on the wall above the dais, the word BEND cut into a tan face inside a dark ring. Nameplates along the bench beneath it read Mendez, Riley, Mayor Kebler, Perkins.", "Nothing has been found that says when it was made, by whom, or when it was hung. What the record gives is a floor: the City's own post of 21 August 2019 shows it already on the wall, the Bulletin photographed it twice in January 2023, KTVZ in September and in October 2024, and the news photograph this record is cut from is January 2026. One object, several sightings, no date.", "And the drawing is the City's own. The mark the City uses today has an arched third letter — the lowercase n the City itself calls the “Bend bug” — and so does the disc on this wall: enlarged from the news photograph and set beside the City's 2016 and 2026 files, the three carry the same arch between two stems and the same small spur above the left one. This archive read it the other way for part of a day, as a capital N, and said the room held two constructions of the same four letters. It does not.", "Said plainly, because a record about a City object can be misread in both directions. What it is: a carving of the Bend emblem, about three feet across, cut in wood and hung in the council chambers, held by the City of Bend, drawn and made by somebody nobody has named. What it is not: a dated object. Nothing here says the City commissioned it, or when, or from whom — only that it carries the same construction the City's identity files carry, and that no document has been found explaining either.", "Where it sits, and who put it there. The disc is filed with the bureau roundel, placed there by the curator on 16 September 2026 because it has the lower case n. The character matrix agrees, and it is the one of his five placements that does: read at 134 pixels of letter, four times the floor the n-form character asks for, the third letter is an arch carried between two stems with the same small spur above its left stem that the City’s own 2016 and 2026 files carry, and no diagonal in it at any enlargement. 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