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  "id": "dhs-2012-emblem",
  "title": "The museum’s emblem artwork, 2012",
  "publisher": "Deschutes Historical Museum",
  "sourceClass": "primary",
  "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120227im_/http://www.deschuteshistory.org/bend%20logo.jpg",
  "accessedOn": "2026-09-11",
  "notes": "Print-resolution artwork of the broad-serif drawing, eight years earlier than the museum’s previously earliest filed specimen.",
  "record": "https://bendemblem.com/archive/dhs-2012-emblem/",
  "evidence": {
    "id": "dhs-2012-emblem",
    "kind": "variant",
    "date": "February 27, 2012",
    "summary": "The museum served print-resolution emblem artwork from its own website in February 2012.",
    "findings": [
      "Broad, shaped letters fill a solid disc in blue and gold. The file is 812 by 812 pixels at 300 dpi — print artwork rather than a web thumbnail.",
      "It is eight years earlier than the museum’s June 2020 newsletter, previously the earliest filed appearance of this drawing.",
      "It is the earliest dated specimen in the broad-serif group, which is the group the received common master belongs to."
    ],
    "limitations": [
      "A capture date bounds use, not creation. The artwork’s own origin is unknown.",
      "Nothing connects this file to the 1912 drawing beyond resemblance and the shared blue and gold.",
      "Its own source file, and whoever prepared it, remain unidentified."
    ],
    "objects": [
      {
        "path": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/dhs-2012-bend-logo.jpg",
        "sha256": "77cef6b7759eb615201e03d0b978e38cd67aae6af1d390b55774b1ba1632d77a",
        "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120227im_/http://www.deschuteshistory.org/bend%20logo.jpg",
        "accessedOn": "2026-09-11",
        "role": "Received source bytes"
      }
    ],
    "images": [
      {
        "original": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/dhs-2012-bend-logo.jpg",
        "page": null,
        "box": null,
        "title": "Emblem artwork from the museum’s website, captured in 2012.",
        "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": "77cef6b7759eb615201e03d0b978e38cd67aae6af1d390b55774b1ba1632d77a",
        "from": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/dhs-2012-bend-logo.jpg"
      }
    ],
    "family": "Deschutes Historical Museum",
    "origin": "Web archive capture; the artwork’s creator and creation date are unverified.",
    "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": [
    {
      "id": "dhs-2012-emblem",
      "label": "Deschutes Historical Museum, 2012",
      "recordId": "dhs-2012-emblem",
      "role": "specimen",
      "family": {
        "id": "the-museum-rounding",
        "name": "The museum rounding",
        "diagnostic": "The same rounded construction as 1917, with the last letter run straight down at one thickness instead of tapering."
      },
      "standsAlone": false,
      "construction": "The rounded construction",
      "confidence": "high",
      "readAt": 682.1,
      "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
        },
        {
          "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": 1.012
        },
        {
          "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": 0.4651
        },
        {
          "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": 0.4699
        }
      ],
      "nearest": [
        {
          "id": "dbba-common-graphic",
          "label": "Downtown Bend gold roundel",
          "iou": 0.9616,
          "reading": "very close; the same drawing, or one traced from it",
          "href": "/archive/dbba-common-graphic/"
        },
        {
          "id": "grayson-emblems-2022-gold",
          "label": "Grayson Graham collection, gold, 2022",
          "iou": 0.9543,
          "reading": "very close; the same drawing, or one traced from it",
          "href": "/archive/grayson-emblems-2022/"
        },
        {
          "id": "dbba-badge-2018",
          "label": "Downtown Bend Business Association badge, 2018",
          "iou": 0.8196,
          "reading": "a family resemblance, not the same cut",
          "href": "/archive/dbba-badge-2018/"
        }
      ],
      "furthest": {
        "id": "bb-1949-08-24-12",
        "label": "Bulletin business directory, August 1949",
        "iou": 0.1668,
        "href": "/archive/bb-1949-08-24-12/"
      },
      "ties": [
        {
          "from": "dhs-2012-emblem",
          "to": "dbba-common-graphic",
          "kind": "measured",
          "label": "One artwork, two files",
          "basis": "The museum’s February 2012 file and the roundel on Downtown Bend’s history page score 0.962 against each other and hold that score at every device cut. Which file came first is not measurable.",
          "test": null,
          "cites": []
        },
        {
          "from": "bb-1912-07-03",
          "to": "dhs-2012-emblem",
          "kind": "hypothesis",
          "label": "Redrawn from the 1912 or 1916 cut?",
          "basis": "Every character of the museum’s drawing matches the period impressions - three-armed E, capital N, letters to the edge - and none matches the narrow families. It scores 0.70 against the 1912 cut, which is family rather than copy.",
          "test": "The Deschutes Historical Museum’s source file and its author, asked of the museum directly. A working file with a 1912 or 1916 scan under it would settle a direction the measurement cannot, and the museum is the first known holder.",
          "cites": []
        }
      ],
      "excludedReason": null,
      "control": 0.975
    }
  ],
  "appearances": [],
  "appearanceLeads": [],
  "exhibit": {
    "id": "dhs-2012-emblem",
    "title": "The museum’s emblem artwork, 2012",
    "intro": "Print-quality emblem artwork, public on the museum’s own website since 2012.",
    "body": [
      "Broad shaped letters filling a solid disc, in blue and gold, at 812 pixels square and 300 dots per inch. This is not a web graphic; it is artwork prepared for printing, and it had been sitting on the Deschutes Historical Museum’s public website for eight years before this project went looking for it.",
      "It moves the museum’s use of this drawing back from 2020 to 2012, and it is the oldest dated example of the broad-serif family — the family the common master belongs to."
    ],
    "related": [
      "dhs-homesteader-2020-06",
      "dbba-2011-circle"
    ],
    "date": "February 27, 2012",
    "collection": "emblems",
    "images": [
      {
        "name": "plate-1",
        "from": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/dhs-2012-bend-logo.jpg",
        "original": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/dhs-2012-bend-logo.jpg",
        "page": null,
        "sha256": "77cef6b7759eb615201e03d0b978e38cd67aae6af1d390b55774b1ba1632d77a",
        "box": null,
        "width": 900,
        "caption": "Emblem artwork from the museum’s website, captured in 2012.",
        "alt": "A blue disc with the word BEND in broad gold letters filling the circle.",
        "credit": "Deschutes Historical Museum · retrieved from the Internet Archive",
        "sourceUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120227im_/http://www.deschuteshistory.org/bend%20logo.jpg",
        "color": true
      }
    ],
    "publication": "Deschutes Historical Museum",
    "galleryTitle": "The museum’s 2012 artwork",
    "galleryDescription": "The earliest dated drawing in the broad-serif family."
  },
  "displayAssets": [
    {
      "path": "/archive/dhs-2012-emblem/plate-1.webp",
      "source": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/dhs-2012-bend-logo.jpg",
      "sourceBox": null,
      "height": 812,
      "bytes": 19130,
      "width": 812,
      "quality": 82,
      "title": "Emblem artwork from the museum’s website, captured in 2012.",
      "rights": "Deschutes Historical Museum · retrieved from the Internet Archive",
      "derivation": "Cut from archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/dhs-2012-bend-logo.jpg; display source archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/dhs-2012-bend-logo.jpg: the full 812×812 px page. Converted to color WebP at 812 px wide, quality 82. Context thumbnail; open the source record for full-resolution reading."
    }
  ],
  "pageSources": [],
  "clipping": null
}