{ "id": "visitbend-2003-header", "title": "The bureau’s roundel on its own site, 2003", "publisher": "Visit Bend", "sourceClass": "primary", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20030121235805im_/http://visitbend.com/design_images/top_left.gif", "accessedOn": "2026-09-14", "notes": "The largest capture of the bureau’s own roundel; about 48 px across, not the 110 px first reported.", "record": "https://bendemblem.com/archive/visitbend-2003-header/", "evidence": { "id": "visitbend-2003-header", "kind": "variant", "date": "January 21, 2003", "summary": "The bureau’s roundel at the head of its redesigned site in January 2003, the largest picture of the drawing before the City’s 2011 file.", "findings": [ "The bureau kept the roundel through a full site redesign between April 2002 and January 2003.", "The roundel is about 48 px across in this capture, not the 110 px the September 2026 research pass reported. At fourteen times enlargement the third letter reads as an arch; at medium confidence, not high.", "The capture is the earliest of exactly one distinct file: the CDX index lists two captures of design_images/top_left.gif, 2003-01-21 and 2003-06-01, and both carry the same bytes." ], "limitations": [ "A capture date says the file was live by then. It says nothing about when the artwork was made.", "No designer, commission or adoption record has been found for the roundel." ], "objects": [ { "path": "archive/online-research/2026-09-14-lineage-captures/vb2003_topleft.gif", "sha256": "8d88fcec7d8409ad849b23c3c51d18aa6bf3f67d232ea7b4c5d8bd36b80febb8", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20030121235805im_/http://visitbend.com/design_images/top_left.gif", "accessedOn": "2026-09-14", "role": "Received source bytes" } ], "images": [ { "original": "archive/online-research/2026-09-14-lineage-captures/vb2003_topleft.gif", "page": null, "box": null, "title": "The bureau’s header after its 2003 redesign, with the roundel above the bureau’s name.", "rights": "Documentary reproduction of a third-party mark, retrieved from the Internet Archive. No project license or fabrication permission is granted.", "color": true, "width": 700, "render": "Source raster; no drawing reconstruction", "sha256": "8d88fcec7d8409ad849b23c3c51d18aa6bf3f67d232ea7b4c5d8bd36b80febb8", "from": "archive/online-research/2026-09-14-lineage-captures/vb2003_topleft.gif" } ], "family": "Visit Bend", "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": "visitbend-2003-header", "label": "The bureau’s roundel in 2003", "recordId": "visitbend-2003-header", "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": "medium", "readAt": 46.8, "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": 1.042 }, { "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": 1.027 }, { "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": 0.4339 }, { "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": 0.3499 } ], "nearest": [ { "id": "bend-store-classic", "label": "The Bend Store sticker", "iou": 0.4949, "reading": "different drawings", "href": "/archive/bend-store-classic/" }, { "id": "vintage-bend-profile", "label": "Vintage Bend profile rendering", "iou": 0.4679, "reading": "different drawings", "href": "/archive/vintage-bend-profile/" }, { "id": "deschutes-born-in-bend", "label": "Deschutes Brewery, Born in Bend", "iou": 0.4639, "reading": "different drawings", "href": "/archive/deschutes-born-in-bend/" } ], "furthest": { "id": "bend-rubber-stamp", "label": "Bend Rubber Stamp & Printing", "iou": 0.1373, "href": "/archive/bend-rubber-stamp/" }, "ties": [], "excludedReason": null, "control": 0.975 } ], "appearances": [], "appearanceLeads": [], "exhibit": { "id": "visitbend-2003-header", "title": "The bureau’s roundel on its own site, 2003", "intro": "The roundel the Chamber’s visitor bureau had by August 2001, still in place at the head of the bureau’s own site eighteen months later.", "body": [ "Visit Bend redesigned its site between the April 2002 capture and this one. The roundel came across unchanged: narrow letters standing clear of a double ring, above VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU set in small capitals.", "The research pass that found this file reported the roundel at about 110 pixels and read the third letter as an arch at high confidence. The file is 163 by 149 and the roundel in it is about 48 pixels across, which gives about 34 pixels of letter and eight pixels to a letter — the same resolution class as the 2002 header. Enlarged fourteen times the third letter does read as an arch, and it is scored so at medium confidence. The reading that settles the family is the City’s 2011 landscape file, where the same roundel is 135 pixels across." ], "related": [ "chamber-2001-emblem", "visitbend-2002-header", "city-landscape-2011" ], "date": "January 21, 2003", "collection": "emblems", "images": [ { "name": "plate-1", "from": "archive/online-research/2026-09-14-lineage-captures/vb2003_topleft.gif", "original": "archive/online-research/2026-09-14-lineage-captures/vb2003_topleft.gif", "page": null, "sha256": "8d88fcec7d8409ad849b23c3c51d18aa6bf3f67d232ea7b4c5d8bd36b80febb8", "box": null, "width": 700, "caption": "The bureau’s header after its 2003 redesign, with the roundel above the bureau’s name.", "alt": "A dark blue header panel with a cream roundel enclosing the word BEND in narrow letters, above the words VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU.", "credit": "Visit Bend · retrieved from the Internet Archive", "sourceUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20030121235805im_/http://visitbend.com/design_images/top_left.gif", "color": true } ], "publication": "Visit Bend", "galleryTitle": "The bureau’s roundel in 2003", "galleryDescription": "The same drawing the Chamber’s bureau had in 2001, carried through a site redesign." }, "displayAssets": [ { "path": "/archive/visitbend-2003-header/plate-1.webp", "source": "archive/online-research/2026-09-14-lineage-captures/vb2003_topleft.gif", "sourceBox": null, "height": 149, "bytes": 4706, "width": 163, "quality": 82, "title": "The bureau’s header after its 2003 redesign, with the roundel above the bureau’s name.", "rights": "Visit Bend · retrieved from the Internet Archive", "derivation": "Cut from archive/online-research/2026-09-14-lineage-captures/vb2003_topleft.gif; display source archive/online-research/2026-09-14-lineage-captures/vb2003_topleft.gif: the full 163×149 px page. Converted to color WebP at 163 px wide, quality 82. Context thumbnail; open the source record for full-resolution reading." } ], "pageSources": [], "clipping": null }