The museum says it out loud, 2013

A ten-minute museum video is the only published source for four objects the emblem is on, and for a date this archive cannot confirm.

The Deschutes Historical Museum put a short talk about the Emblem Club on YouTube on 20 February 2013, for the club's hundredth anniversary. A curator speaks to camera in a room hung with framed photographs, and the film cuts between her and the museum's own holdings.

The narration makes two claims worth separating. The first is a date: the emblem “was created by the Bend Emblem Club in between 1911 and 1912”. No document this archive holds says that, and the earliest the emblem can be shown is 3 July 1912, the morning the Bend Park Company bought a page of the Bulletin to print it. The second is the oath, which the narration reads substantially as the 1913 book has it: members would wear the emblem “until the day that Bend reached a population of 100,000 people”.

And one sentence is a finding of its own. “The Emblem Club is represented all over in our photographs,” the curator says at 2:43, “but the one thing we don't have is a picture of William Cheney the man who started it all.” The museum has looked. So has this project.

What makes the film matter to this archive is not the talk but the pictures behind it. Four objects appear in it that no catalogue, article or web page names: a photograph of three skiers in emblem sweaters, a banquet hall with an emblem banner, two leaves of a printed item with an emblem in each bottom corner, and a baseball team whose jerseys carry it. Each has its own record here. The film dates none of them.

The disc shown here is the video's own title graphic, not a photographed object, and it is the drawing the museum published on its website in February 2012.