{ "id": "dbba-2006-bug", "title": "Downtown Bend’s disc, dated by its own file", "publisher": "Downtown Bend Business Association", "sourceClass": "primary", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20111014014237im_/http://www.downtownbend.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Downtown-Bend-bug.jpg", "accessedOn": "2026-09-14", "notes": "Exif DateTime 2006-11-15; the earliest date attached to any modern drawing in this collection.", "record": "https://bendemblem.com/archive/dbba-2006-bug/", "evidence": { "id": "dbba-2006-bug", "kind": "variant", "date": "November 15, 2006", "summary": "A 1260 px file from the association’s website carrying a DateTime of November 15, 2006 written by Adobe Photoshop CS2, and the earliest date attached to any modern drawing in this collection.", "findings": [ "Embedded metadata: Adobe Photoshop CS2 Macintosh, DateTime 2006-11-15 14:14:33. The earliest date attached to any modern drawing in this collection.", "Measured as the narrow capital-N drawing: about 0.90 against the Bend Store sticker and Deschutes Brewery at the letters cut, the same neighbourhood as Downtown Bend’s own 2011 banner.", "Downtown Bend is its first known holder, which is why the family is named for the file rather than for any maker." ], "limitations": [ "An Exif DateTime records a save, not a drawing, and depends on the machine’s clock. It is not a creation date and the site never states one.", "The 2009/12 upload path is a WordPress directory, not a date of anything.", "Who made the file, and from what, is unknown. The association has not been asked." ], "objects": [ { "path": "archive/online-research/2026-09-14-lineage-captures/dtb-bug.jpg", "sha256": "397d9754a78e854e895b7e99232ebffeab5f0ef25f0229efc310476f3110517a", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20111014014237im_/http://www.downtownbend.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Downtown-Bend-bug.jpg", "accessedOn": "2026-09-14", "role": "Received source bytes" } ], "images": [ { "original": "archive/online-research/2026-09-14-lineage-captures/dtb-bug.jpg", "page": null, "box": null, "title": "Downtown Bend’s disc at 1260 px, from the association’s own website.", "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": "397d9754a78e854e895b7e99232ebffeab5f0ef25f0229efc310476f3110517a", "from": "archive/online-research/2026-09-14-lineage-captures/dtb-bug.jpg" } ], "family": "Downtown Bend Business Association", "origin": "Web archive capture; the artwork’s creator and creation date are unverified.", "sourceIds": [], "review": { "status": "image-reviewed", "method": "The capture was re-fetched at the URL recorded here and its SHA-256 confirmed against the filed bytes; the image was rendered and read at its own resolution.", "reviewedOn": "2026-09-14" } }, "measurement": [ { "id": "dbba-2006-bug", "label": "Downtown Bend’s 2006 file", "recordId": "dbba-2006-bug", "role": "specimen", "family": { "id": "the-downtown-file", "name": "The Downtown file", "diagnostic": "The same narrow letters and notched E as the bureau roundel, with a capital N." }, "standsAlone": false, "construction": "The notched construction", "confidence": "high", "readAt": 913.5, "readAtBasis": "the letters alone, at this drawing's own letter cut", "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": 1.004 }, { "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": 1 }, { "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": 0.3073 }, { "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": 0.419 } ], "nearest": [ { "id": "grayson-emblems-2022-gold", "label": "Grayson Graham collection, gold, 2022", "iou": 0.7586, "reading": "a family resemblance, not the same cut", "href": "/archive/grayson-emblems-2022/" }, { "id": "dbba-common-graphic", "label": "Downtown Bend gold roundel", "iou": 0.7523, "reading": "a family resemblance, not the same cut", "href": "/archive/dbba-common-graphic/" }, { "id": "dhs-2012-emblem", "label": "Deschutes Historical Museum, 2012", "iou": 0.747, "reading": "related letterforms, clearly redrawn", "href": "/archive/dhs-2012-emblem/" } ], "furthest": { "id": "bb-1949-08-24-12", "label": "Bulletin business directory, August 1949", "iou": 0.126, "href": "/archive/bb-1949-08-24-12/" }, "ties": [ { "from": "dbba-2006-bug", "to": "bend-store-classic", "kind": "measured", "label": "0.91 at the letters cut", "basis": "Read at the smaller of the two drawings’ own letter cuts, where neither mask holds a ring, these two agree at 0.91. At the global cut the same pair scores 0.37, which is a number about two rings. Neither score says which drawing came first.", "test": null, "cites": [] }, { "from": "dbba-2006-bug", "to": "deschutes-born-in-bend", "kind": "measured", "label": "0.93 at the letters cut", "basis": "Read at the smaller of the two drawings’ own letter cuts, where neither mask holds a ring, these two agree at 0.93. At the global cut the same pair scores 0.39, which is a number about two rings. Neither score says which drawing came first.", "test": null, "cites": [] }, { "from": "dbba-2006-bug", "to": "dbba-2011-circle", "kind": "measured", "label": "0.87 at the letters cut", "basis": "Read at the smaller of the two drawings’ own letter cuts, where neither mask holds a ring, these two agree at 0.87. At the global cut the same pair scores 0.35, which is a number about two rings. Neither score says which drawing came first.", "test": null, "cites": [] }, { "from": "dbba-2006-bug", "to": "visitbend-2014-logo", "kind": "hypothesis", "label": "Visit Bend takes the commercial file?", "basis": "Visit Bend carried the arched-n roundel from 2001 to at least 2008 and the capital-N drawing by March 2014. Every character of its 2014 roundel matches the file Downtown Bend held in 2006, and the bureau has never published a statement about either drawing.", "test": "Visit Bend’s own answer to who drew the mark it adopted, and the artwork file behind the 2014 site theme. The captures between 2008 and 2014 carry the roundel too small to read, so the web cannot close this on its own.", "cites": [] } ], "excludedReason": null, "control": 0.975 } ], "appearances": [], "appearanceLeads": [], "exhibit": { "id": "dbba-2006-bug", "title": "Downtown Bend’s disc, dated by its own file", "intro": "The largest and earliest-dated modern drawing of the emblem on hand: a gold BEND on a dark green disc, from Downtown Bend’s own website.", "body": [ "The file is 1260 by 1255 at 300 dpi and carries embedded metadata naming Adobe Photoshop CS2 on a Macintosh and a DateTime of 15 November 2006, 14:14:33. The Internet Archive captured it on 14 October 2011 at an upload path dated December 2009. Three dates, and only the first is about the artwork.", "An Exif DateTime is written by software, not asserted by a person, and it is wrong whenever the machine’s clock was. It is nonetheless the earliest date attached to any modern drawing in this collection, and it moves the capital-N drawing’s first known appearance from March 2011 back to November 2006.", "Measured, it is the narrow capital-N drawing. Read at each drawing’s own letter cut it scores 0.90 against the Bend Store sticker and Deschutes Brewery’s roundel, which is the same-artwork neighbourhood; at the global cut, where the ring dominates, those same pairs fall to 0.35. A research pass first read this file as the museum’s drawing. It is not: against the O’Kane glass it is 0.30, and against the 1912 impression lower still." ], "related": [ "dbba-2011-circle", "bend-store-classic", "deschutes-born-in-bend" ], "date": "November 15, 2006", "collection": "emblems", "images": [ { "name": "plate-1", "from": "archive/online-research/2026-09-14-lineage-captures/dtb-bug.jpg", "original": "archive/online-research/2026-09-14-lineage-captures/dtb-bug.jpg", "page": null, "sha256": "397d9754a78e854e895b7e99232ebffeab5f0ef25f0229efc310476f3110517a", "box": null, "width": 900, "caption": "Downtown Bend’s disc at 1260 px, from the association’s own website.", "alt": "A dark green disc with the word BEND cut out of it in tall narrow gold letters, the third letter a capital N with a diagonal.", "credit": "Downtown Bend Business Association · retrieved from the Internet Archive", "sourceUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20111014014237im_/http://www.downtownbend.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Downtown-Bend-bug.jpg", "color": true } ], "publication": "Downtown Bend Business Association", "galleryTitle": "Downtown Bend’s 2006 file", "galleryDescription": "The earliest dated modern drawing on hand, dated by its own embedded metadata rather than by a capture." }, "displayAssets": [ { "path": "/archive/dbba-2006-bug/plate-1.webp", "source": "archive/online-research/2026-09-14-lineage-captures/dtb-bug.jpg", "sourceBox": null, "height": 896, "bytes": 19442, "width": 900, "quality": 82, "title": "Downtown Bend’s disc at 1260 px, from the association’s own website.", "rights": "Downtown Bend Business Association · retrieved from the Internet Archive", "derivation": "Cut from archive/online-research/2026-09-14-lineage-captures/dtb-bug.jpg; display source archive/online-research/2026-09-14-lineage-captures/dtb-bug.jpg: the full 1260×1255 px page. Converted to color WebP at 900 px wide, quality 82. Context thumbnail; open the source record for full-resolution reading." } ], "pageSources": [], "clipping": null }