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  "id": "city-seal-1998",
  "title": "The City of Bend’s seal, and what it is not",
  "publisher": "City of Bend",
  "sourceClass": "primary",
  "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/19981111190549/http://www.ci.bend.or.us/",
  "accessedOn": "2026-09-11",
  "notes": "The municipal seal is datable to the City’s earliest web capture. It carries no BEND letter device.",
  "record": "https://bendemblem.com/archive/city-seal-1998/",
  "evidence": {
    "id": "city-seal-1998",
    "kind": "history",
    "date": "November 11, 1998",
    "summary": "The City’s landscape seal is in use by November 1998 and is not a letter device.",
    "findings": [
      "A landscape composite — sunburst, mountains, pines and river — ringed by SEAL OF THE CITY OF BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON and the numerals 1905, in blue and yellow.",
      "Across 49 archived City image candidates from 1998 to 2012, the City’s own marks are this seal and plain wordmarks. No BEND letter device appears in that span.",
      "The seal recurs as a document watermark on City agendas captured in December 2002."
    ],
    "limitations": [
      "This is a seal, not a letter device, and it is filed here as a comparison and an exclusion rather than as a member of the emblem family.",
      "The numerals 1905 date the city’s incorporation, not the drawing.",
      "The absence of a letter device is an absence in the captures examined: earliest front pages and filename candidates, not every archived interior page.",
      "Its relationship to the City’s undated landscape composite, which does contain a small circular emblem, has not been established."
    ],
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        "title": "The City of Bend seal, from the City’s earliest archived pages.",
        "rights": "Documentary reproduction of a third-party mark, retrieved from the Internet Archive. No project license or fabrication permission is granted.",
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    "id": "city-seal-1998",
    "title": "The City of Bend’s seal, and what it is not",
    "intro": "The City’s own mark through this period is a seal with a landscape in it, and no BEND letters at all.",
    "body": [
      "It is easy to assume a city called Bend has always used the Bend emblem. Its website says otherwise. From the earliest capture in November 1998 through 2012, the City of Bend’s own marks are this landscape seal and plain wordmarks — forty-nine archived images, and not one letter device among them.",
      "That makes the seal useful in the way an exclusion is useful. It sits beside the emblem family rather than inside it, and it dates the City’s later letter mark from the far side: whatever that mark is, it is not on the City’s own front pages through 2012."
    ],
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      "city-bend-agency"
    ],
    "date": "November 11, 1998",
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        "width": 900,
        "caption": "The City of Bend seal, from the City’s earliest archived pages.",
        "alt": "A circular municipal seal with mountains, a sunburst and a river, ringed by the words Seal of the City of Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, and the year 1905.",
        "credit": "City of Bend · retrieved from the Internet Archive",
        "sourceUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/19981111190549/http://www.ci.bend.or.us/",
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      }
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    "publication": "City of Bend"
  },
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      "title": "The City of Bend seal, from the City’s earliest archived pages.",
      "rights": "City of Bend · retrieved from the Internet Archive",
      "derivation": "Cut from archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/city-2000-colorcitylogo.gif; display source archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/city-2000-colorcitylogo.gif: the full 499×487 px page. Converted to color WebP at 499 px wide, quality 82. Context thumbnail; open the source record for full-resolution reading."
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