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  "schema": 1,
  "id": "historic-bryce",
  "title": "Historic Bryce",
  "checked_at": "2026-10-02",
  "plates": [
    {
      "slug": "thors-hammer",
      "title": "A familiar silhouette",
      "subject": "Thor’s Hammer & Navajo Loop",
      "theme": "landforms",
      "place": "amphitheater",
      "alt": "Historic photograph of Thor’s Hammer above a winding trail, with the dark edge of the scanned negative visible.",
      "story": "A cap of rock, a narrow neck, and a trail threading across the slope. Cope’s photograph brings a recognizable landmark and the visitor’s route into the same frame. The museum catalogue names both Thor’s Hammer and Navajo Loop.",
      "look": "Follow the trail across the right-hand slope. Its presence is evidence of a route in this photograph, not proof of today’s exact trail alignment.",
      "limit": "The landmark is named in the catalogue; the camera position and exact capture year are unrecorded here. The modern-reference comparison cannot measure erosion.",
      "place_label": "Named landmark; camera position unknown",
      "id": "hb-thors-hammer",
      "number": 1,
      "source_id": "hb-nps-thors-hammer",
      "source_url": "https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/f8112cfb-8926-444d-9f4a-9450615b7241",
      "source_title": "Nitrate negative of Thors hammer, hoodoos, and Navajo Loop Trail in BRCA. ; BRCA Museum and Archives Image BRCA8875_001_027 ; BRCA 8875",
      "identifier": "Archive Number: BRCA 532/001-#027",
      "credit": "Courtesy Bryce Canyon National Park, Photographer Maurice Cope, Museum Catalog Number BRCA 532/001-#027",
      "photographer": "Maurice N. Cope",
      "collection": "Bryce Canyon National Park Museum and Archives",
      "date": {
        "start": 1920,
        "end": 1940,
        "precision": "range",
        "label": "1920–1940",
        "basis": "NPGallery Content Dates: 01/01/1920–12/30/1940. This is a broad catalogue range; its endpoint days are not capture dates."
      },
      "rights": {
        "status": "public-domain",
        "basis": "This digital asset is in the public domain. When publishing this asset for any use, including online, image must credit: Courtesy Bryce Canyon National Park, Photographer Maurice Cope, Museum Catalog Number BRCA 532/001-#027",
        "credit": "Courtesy Bryce Canyon National Park, Photographer Maurice Cope, Museum Catalog Number BRCA 532/001-#027",
        "policy_url": "https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/disclaimer.htm"
      },
      "image": "images/thors-hammer.jpg",
      "thumbnail": "images/thors-hammer-small.jpg",
      "width": 2613,
      "height": 1973,
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      "evidence_class": "reference",
      "medium": "NPS JPEG of a nitrate-negative scan; original framing retained",
      "camera": {
        "known": false,
        "coordinates": null
      },
      "date_checked": "2026-10-02"
    },
    {
      "slug": "sinking-ship",
      "title": "A skyline with a name",
      "subject": "Sinking Ship",
      "theme": "landforms",
      "place": "sinking-ship",
      "alt": "Pale hoodoos and wooded slopes fill a wide historic view, with a tilted ridge in the upper left distance.",
      "story": "The tilted ridge sits beyond the foreground towers. The catalogue identifies the distant feature as the Sinking Ship and describes the view as taken from the rim. Naming the subject tells us what the archivist recognized, while leaving the photographer’s station unresolved.",
      "look": "Compare the scale of the foreground columns with the small, sloping skyline. Distance changes the apparent relationship between landforms.",
      "limit": "The map marks the published Sinking Ship name locator. It is not the location where Cope stood.",
      "place_label": "Named landmark; rim viewpoint unspecified",
      "id": "hb-sinking-ship",
      "number": 2,
      "source_id": "hb-nps-sinking-ship",
      "source_url": "https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/c45d458e-7703-4f33-b418-448f0d9f8fc2",
      "source_title": "Nitrate negative of hoodoos and the Sinking Ship from the rim in BRCA. ; BRCA Museum and Archives Image BRCA8875_001_003 ; BRCA 8875",
      "identifier": "Archive Number: BRCA 532/001-#003",
      "credit": "Courtesy Bryce Canyon National Park, Photographer Maurice Cope, Museum Catalog Number BRCA 532/001-#003",
      "photographer": "Maurice N. Cope",
      "collection": "Bryce Canyon National Park Museum and Archives",
      "date": {
        "start": 1920,
        "end": 1940,
        "precision": "range",
        "label": "1920–1940",
        "basis": "NPGallery Content Dates: 01/01/1920–12/30/1940. This is a broad catalogue range; its endpoint days are not capture dates."
      },
      "rights": {
        "status": "public-domain",
        "basis": "This digital asset is in the public domain. When publishing this asset for any use, including online, image must credit: Courtesy Bryce Canyon National Park, Photographer Maurice Cope, Museum Catalog Number BRCA 532/001-#003",
        "credit": "Courtesy Bryce Canyon National Park, Photographer Maurice Cope, Museum Catalog Number BRCA 532/001-#003",
        "policy_url": "https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/disclaimer.htm"
      },
      "image": "images/sinking-ship.jpg",
      "thumbnail": "images/sinking-ship-small.jpg",
      "width": 2766,
      "height": 1953,
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      "evidence_class": "reference",
      "medium": "NPS JPEG of a nitrate-negative scan; original framing retained",
      "camera": {
        "known": false,
        "coordinates": null
      },
      "date_checked": "2026-10-02"
    },
    {
      "slug": "silent-city",
      "title": "Reading an archival name",
      "subject": "Silent City, as catalogued",
      "theme": "landforms",
      "place": "amphitheater",
      "alt": "A historic scan shows a wooded rim over a dense rock wall with dark openings; scratches and a pale blemish remain visible.",
      "story": "The museum record calls this scene Silent City, viewed from the rim. We retain that archival identification. Dark openings, trees along the skyline, and the edge of the negative give the photograph its particular character.",
      "look": "Notice the scratches and bright mark near the lower edge. They belong to the surviving photographic record and have not been painted away.",
      "limit": "The catalogue title has not been independently resolved to a precise present-day viewpoint or every individual formation in the frame.",
      "place_label": "Catalogue place name; exact viewpoint unresolved",
      "id": "hb-silent-city",
      "number": 3,
      "source_id": "hb-nps-silent-city",
      "source_url": "https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/cf6eb960-3608-416d-8f0e-e45ddcca7e5c",
      "source_title": "Nitrate negative of Silent City from the rim in BRCA. ; BRCA Museum and Archives Image BRCA8875_001_004 ; BRCA 8875",
      "identifier": "Archive Number: BRCA 532/001-#004",
      "credit": "Courtesy Bryce Canyon National Park, Photographer Maurice Cope, Museum Catalog Number BRCA 532/001-#004",
      "photographer": "Maurice N. Cope",
      "collection": "Bryce Canyon National Park Museum and Archives",
      "date": {
        "start": 1920,
        "end": 1940,
        "precision": "range",
        "label": "1920–1940",
        "basis": "NPGallery Content Dates: 01/01/1920–12/30/1940. This is a broad catalogue range; its endpoint days are not capture dates."
      },
      "rights": {
        "status": "public-domain",
        "basis": "This digital asset is in the public domain. When publishing this asset for any use, including online, image must credit: Courtesy Bryce Canyon National Park, Photographer Maurice Cope, Museum Catalog Number BRCA 532/001-#004",
        "credit": "Courtesy Bryce Canyon National Park, Photographer Maurice Cope, Museum Catalog Number BRCA 532/001-#004",
        "policy_url": "https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/disclaimer.htm"
      },
      "image": "images/silent-city.jpg",
      "thumbnail": "images/silent-city-small.jpg",
      "width": 2781,
      "height": 1993,
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      "evidence_class": "reference",
      "medium": "NPS JPEG of a nitrate-negative scan; original framing retained",
      "camera": {
        "known": false,
        "coordinates": null
      },
      "date_checked": "2026-10-02"
    },
    {
      "slug": "hat-shop",
      "title": "Three towers along a trail",
      "subject": "Hat Shop Trail",
      "theme": "landforms",
      "place": "hat-shop",
      "alt": "Three irregular rock towers rise above a forested slope in a vertical archival photograph, with negative-edge lettering at the top.",
      "story": "Cope framed three towers against an open sky. The catalogue locates the photograph along the Hat Shop Trail and notes the forest behind them. The vertical format gives most of the frame to the rock itself.",
      "look": "The larger tops and narrower columns make the group legible even without color. Keep the full frame in view to see the slope beneath them.",
      "limit": "No surveyed camera station or modern match for these three individual columns has been established. The map provides only the Hat Shop area.",
      "place_label": "Named trail area; individual camera station unknown",
      "id": "hb-hat-shop",
      "number": 4,
      "source_id": "hb-nps-hat-shop",
      "source_url": "https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/38c8c318-a1f0-4cdf-b696-a22a69f06599",
      "source_title": "Nitrate negative of three hoodoos from the Hat Shop Trail in BRCA. Forested area in background. ; BRCA Museum and Archives Image BRCA8875_001_023 ; BRCA 8875",
      "identifier": "Archive Number: BRCA 532/001-#023",
      "credit": "Courtesy Bryce Canyon National Park, Photographer Maurice Cope, Museum Catalog Number BRCA 532/001-#023",
      "photographer": "Maurice N. Cope",
      "collection": "Bryce Canyon National Park Museum and Archives",
      "date": {
        "start": 1920,
        "end": 1940,
        "precision": "range",
        "label": "1920–1940",
        "basis": "NPGallery Content Dates: 01/01/1920–12/30/1940. This is a broad catalogue range; its endpoint days are not capture dates."
      },
      "rights": {
        "status": "public-domain",
        "basis": "This digital asset is in the public domain. When publishing this asset for any use, including online, image must credit: Courtesy Bryce Canyon National Park, Photographer Maurice Cope, Museum Catalog Number BRCA 532/001-#023",
        "credit": "Courtesy Bryce Canyon National Park, Photographer Maurice Cope, Museum Catalog Number BRCA 532/001-#023",
        "policy_url": "https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/disclaimer.htm"
      },
      "image": "images/hat-shop.jpg",
      "thumbnail": "images/hat-shop-small.jpg",
      "width": 1596,
      "height": 1999,
      "sha256": "e5bbd1876a60c7a25954b106269b9e2c7d597a48d8cefb7e7ddb3d3fcec374ce",
      "evidence_class": "reference",
      "medium": "NPS JPEG of a nitrate-negative scan; original framing retained",
      "camera": {
        "known": false,
        "coordinates": null
      },
      "date_checked": "2026-10-02"
    },
    {
      "slug": "wall-of-windows",
      "title": "Sky through stone",
      "subject": "Wall of Windows / Peekaboo Trail",
      "theme": "landforms",
      "place": "amphitheater",
      "alt": "A tall bright opening and a smaller opening cut through a rock wall in a vertical historic scan.",
      "story": "A bright opening divides the central rock wall, with a smaller window to the left. The archive identifies the Wall of Windows and the Peekaboo Trail. The photograph is a record of a particular view, not a measured outline of the openings.",
      "look": "Trace the difference between the light sky inside the opening and the sunlit rock outside it. Exposure can hide detail at those edges.",
      "limit": "The opening dimensions, camera location, and exact capture date are not supplied by this archival record.",
      "place_label": "Named feature and trail; camera position unknown",
      "id": "hb-wall-of-windows",
      "number": 5,
      "source_id": "hb-nps-wall-of-windows",
      "source_url": "https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/0a001197-0efd-4f36-ae96-6b9a1e9d33ba",
      "source_title": "Nitrate negative of Wall of Windows from the Peekaboo Trail in BRCA. ; BRCA Museum and Archives Image BRCA8875_001_028 ; BRCA 8875",
      "identifier": "Archive Number: BRCA 532/001-#028",
      "credit": "Courtesy Bryce Canyon National Park, Photographer Maurice Cope, Museum Catalog Number BRCA 532/001-#028",
      "photographer": "Maurice N. Cope",
      "collection": "Bryce Canyon National Park Museum and Archives",
      "date": {
        "start": 1920,
        "end": 1940,
        "precision": "range",
        "label": "1920–1940",
        "basis": "NPGallery Content Dates: 01/01/1920–12/30/1940. This is a broad catalogue range; its endpoint days are not capture dates."
      },
      "rights": {
        "status": "public-domain",
        "basis": "This digital asset is in the public domain. When publishing this asset for any use, including online, image must credit: Courtesy Bryce Canyon National Park, Photographer Maurice Cope, Museum Catalog Number BRCA 532/001-#028",
        "credit": "Courtesy Bryce Canyon National Park, Photographer Maurice Cope, Museum Catalog Number BRCA 532/001-#028",
        "policy_url": "https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/disclaimer.htm"
      },
      "image": "images/wall-of-windows.jpg",
      "thumbnail": "images/wall-of-windows-small.jpg",
      "width": 1981,
      "height": 2619,
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      "evidence_class": "reference",
      "medium": "NPS JPEG of a nitrate-negative scan; original framing retained",
      "camera": {
        "known": false,
        "coordinates": null
      },
      "date_checked": "2026-10-02"
    },
    {
      "slug": "queens-garden",
      "title": "A person in the garden",
      "subject": "Queen’s Garden area",
      "theme": "people",
      "place": "amphitheater",
      "alt": "A small figure stands among pines in front of a hoodoo formation in a pale vertical photograph.",
      "story": "A person stands near the bottom of the frame, almost lost among the trees and rock. The museum description identifies the subject as a boy in the Queen’s Garden area. It does not name him or explain why the photograph was made.",
      "look": "Find the figure before looking up at the rock. The photograph offers a human reference for the scene, but no reliable measuring scale.",
      "limit": "The person’s identity, precise age, experience, and relationship to the photographer are not established. No biographical story is inferred.",
      "place_label": "Named area; person and camera station unidentified",
      "id": "hb-queens-garden",
      "number": 6,
      "source_id": "hb-nps-queens-garden",
      "source_url": "https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/6224d1fa-80ee-4ae1-9eb3-b8cef3bd8e17",
      "source_title": "Nitrate negative of boy standing in Queens Garden area of BRCA. Trees and vegetation in foreground. Hoodoos in background. ; BRCA Museum and Archives Image BRCA8875_001_035 ; BRCA 8875",
      "identifier": "Archive Number: BRCA 532/001-#035",
      "credit": "Courtesy Bryce Canyon National Park, Photographer Maurice Cope, Museum Catalog Number BRCA 532/001-#035",
      "photographer": "Maurice N. Cope",
      "collection": "Bryce Canyon National Park Museum and Archives",
      "date": {
        "start": 1920,
        "end": 1940,
        "precision": "range",
        "label": "1920–1940",
        "basis": "NPGallery Content Dates: 01/01/1920–12/30/1940. This is a broad catalogue range; its endpoint days are not capture dates."
      },
      "rights": {
        "status": "public-domain",
        "basis": "This digital asset is in the public domain. When publishing this asset for any use, including online, image must credit: Courtesy Bryce Canyon National Park, Photographer Maurice Cope, Museum Catalog Number BRCA 532/001-#035",
        "credit": "Courtesy Bryce Canyon National Park, Photographer Maurice Cope, Museum Catalog Number BRCA 532/001-#035",
        "policy_url": "https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/disclaimer.htm"
      },
      "image": "images/queens-garden.jpg",
      "thumbnail": "images/queens-garden-small.jpg",
      "width": 1991,
      "height": 2613,
      "sha256": "66e2381ccd474a8b1d56e48e16d2a1d481d3c0104679e0823ef0f7c207193847",
      "evidence_class": "reference",
      "medium": "NPS JPEG of a nitrate-negative scan; original framing retained",
      "camera": {
        "known": false,
        "coordinates": null
      },
      "date_checked": "2026-10-02"
    },
    {
      "slug": "road",
      "title": "The way through the trees",
      "subject": "A park road, location unresolved",
      "theme": "built",
      "place": "unlocated",
      "alt": "A dirt road curves past pines and low ground vegetation in a wide historic photograph.",
      "story": "A dirt road curves through a forested setting. The catalogue places the scene in Bryce Canyon National Park, but gives no road name. It records another part of a park visit: the space between the famous views.",
      "look": "Read the road as a visible feature in this frame. Its width, surface, and curve do not identify it as a particular modern road.",
      "limit": "No point is plotted for this photograph. A park-wide location cannot support a precise map pin or a then-and-now match.",
      "place_label": "Park identified; road and camera position unknown",
      "id": "hb-road",
      "number": 7,
      "source_id": "hb-nps-road",
      "source_url": "https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/d1ce99cf-5ee8-4bde-8bdf-b19ec091e53d",
      "source_title": "Nitrate negative of dirt road in a forested area in BRCA. ; BRCA Museum and Archives Image BRCA8875_001_002 ; BRCA 8875",
      "identifier": "Archive Number: BRCA 532/001-#002",
      "credit": "Courtesy Bryce Canyon National Park, Photographer Maurice Cope, Museum Catalog Number BRCA 532/001-#002",
      "photographer": "Maurice N. Cope",
      "collection": "Bryce Canyon National Park Museum and Archives",
      "date": {
        "start": 1920,
        "end": 1940,
        "precision": "range",
        "label": "1920–1940",
        "basis": "NPGallery Content Dates: 01/01/1920–12/30/1940. This is a broad catalogue range; its endpoint days are not capture dates."
      },
      "rights": {
        "status": "public-domain",
        "basis": "This digital asset is in the public domain. When publishing this asset for any use, including online, image must credit: Courtesy Bryce Canyon National Park, Photographer Maurice Cope, Museum Catalog Number BRCA 532/001-#002",
        "credit": "Courtesy Bryce Canyon National Park, Photographer Maurice Cope, Museum Catalog Number BRCA 532/001-#002",
        "policy_url": "https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/disclaimer.htm"
      },
      "image": "images/road.jpg",
      "thumbnail": "images/road-small.jpg",
      "width": 2759,
      "height": 1956,
      "sha256": "b0b6b601d5f48d99bcf0124949a71115ee28ad37773912a1dd828072f5b8883c",
      "evidence_class": "reference",
      "medium": "NPS JPEG of a nitrate-negative scan; original framing retained",
      "camera": {
        "known": false,
        "coordinates": null
      },
      "date_checked": "2026-10-02"
    },
    {
      "slug": "ranger-walk",
      "title": "Sharing the view",
      "subject": "Ranger-led walk at the amphitheater",
      "theme": "people",
      "place": "amphitheater",
      "alt": "A small group stands at the upper left of a broad amphitheater overlook in a tall historic photograph.",
      "story": "The people occupy only a small corner of this large view. The museum catalogue describes a ranger-led hike at an amphitheater viewpoint. It preserves a scene of interpretation without preserving the words spoken there.",
      "look": "Find the group along the left skyline. Their placement shows how the photographer balanced a human gathering with the landscape.",
      "limit": "The individuals, spoken interpretation, exact overlook, and exact year are unknown. Historical behavior in the frame is not present-day access advice.",
      "place_label": "Amphitheater viewpoint; exact overlook unspecified",
      "id": "hb-ranger-walk",
      "number": 8,
      "source_id": "hb-nps-ranger-walk",
      "source_url": "https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/a6798b9c-4ff2-49e7-9fbf-081e58deae94",
      "source_title": "Nitrate negative of visitors on ranger led hike at viewpoint overlooking amphitheater in BRCA. ; BRCA Museum and Archives Image BRCA8875_001_174 ; BRCA 8875",
      "identifier": "Archive Number: BRCA 532/001-#174",
      "credit": "Courtesy Bryce Canyon National Park, Photographer Maurice Cope, Museum Catalog Number BRCA 532/001-#174",
      "photographer": "Maurice N. Cope",
      "collection": "Bryce Canyon National Park Museum and Archives",
      "date": {
        "start": 1920,
        "end": 1940,
        "precision": "range",
        "label": "1920–1940",
        "basis": "NPGallery Content Dates: 01/01/1920–12/30/1940. This is a broad catalogue range; its endpoint days are not capture dates."
      },
      "rights": {
        "status": "public-domain",
        "basis": "This digital asset is in the public domain. When publishing this asset for any use, including online, image must credit: Courtesy Bryce Canyon National Park, Photographer Maurice Cope, Museum Catalog Number BRCA 532/001-#174",
        "credit": "Courtesy Bryce Canyon National Park, Photographer Maurice Cope, Museum Catalog Number BRCA 532/001-#174",
        "policy_url": "https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/disclaimer.htm"
      },
      "image": "images/ranger-walk.jpg",
      "thumbnail": "images/ranger-walk-small.jpg",
      "width": 1614,
      "height": 2000,
      "sha256": "7ec80ce738fc041bac1c7a4b64c0442393f382edc75fda605a5e033f0675efd4",
      "evidence_class": "reference",
      "medium": "NPS JPEG of a nitrate-negative scan; original framing retained",
      "camera": {
        "known": false,
        "coordinates": null
      },
      "date_checked": "2026-10-02"
    },
    {
      "slug": "cabins-1929",
      "title": "Building a place to stay",
      "subject": "Deluxe Quadruplex Cabin",
      "theme": "built",
      "place": "lodge-area",
      "alt": "A low log cabin with a broad roof and prominent stone chimneys stands among pine trees in a black-and-white photograph.",
      "story": "Stone chimneys and log walls dominate this cabin photograph. NPS captions the image as a Deluxe Quadruplex Cabin in the lodge area, 1929, and credits the Bryce Canyon National Park Archives. Its accompanying landscape history discusses the deliberate relationship between buildings and their forested setting.",
      "look": "Compare the low roof with the surrounding trees. The visual relationship is part of the image; the catalogue does not identify a specific cabin number.",
      "limit": "1929 is the source caption’s year. No day, month, individual photographer, or precise camera position is supplied. The available image is 638 × 426 pixels.",
      "place_label": "Lodge district; specific cabin and camera unidentified",
      "id": "hb-cabins-1929",
      "number": 9,
      "source_id": "hb-nps-cabins-1929",
      "source_url": "https://www.nps.gov/articles/850501.htm",
      "source_title": "Deluxe Quadruplex Cabin in Lodge Area, 1929",
      "identifier": "NPS Archives 00350; article 850501",
      "credit": "NPS / Bryce Canyon National Park Archives 00350",
      "photographer": "Individual photographer not identified by NPS",
      "collection": "Bryce Canyon National Park Archives",
      "date": {
        "start": 1929,
        "end": 1929,
        "precision": "year",
        "label": "1929",
        "basis": "Year printed in the individual image caption; no day or month supplied."
      },
      "rights": {
        "status": "public-domain",
        "basis": "Image explicitly credited to NPS on the individual cultural-landscape article; no third-party or copyright credit. NPS Disclaimer, Ownership, applies to NPS-created material.",
        "credit": "NPS / Bryce Canyon National Park Archives 00350",
        "policy_url": "https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/disclaimer.htm"
      },
      "image": "images/cabins-1929.jpg",
      "thumbnail": "images/cabins-1929.jpg",
      "width": 638,
      "height": 426,
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      "evidence_class": "reference",
      "medium": "NPS article JPEG; original supplied framing retained",
      "camera": {
        "known": false,
        "coordinates": null
      },
      "date_checked": "2026-10-02"
    },
    {
      "slug": "ranger-station-1929",
      "title": "A working park takes shape",
      "subject": "Ranger Station / Residence",
      "theme": "built",
      "place": "lodge-area",
      "alt": "A timber and stone building stands among pines with construction materials and scaffolding visible near the porch.",
      "story": "The building is surrounded by tall pines, with construction materials visible near its front. NPS captions this photograph as Ranger Station/Residence, 1929. The image accompanies the agency’s account of the Old NPS Housing Historic District and the development of park administration.",
      "look": "Look at the porch, roof, and materials around the building. They show work in progress without telling us the day or the names of the workers.",
      "limit": "The individual photographer and workers are unidentified. The map groups this record with the lodge-area story, not a specific residence or camera pin. The source is 638 × 482 pixels.",
      "place_label": "Historic district identified; grouped near lodge for orientation",
      "id": "hb-ranger-station-1929",
      "number": 10,
      "source_id": "hb-nps-ranger-station-1929",
      "source_url": "https://www.nps.gov/articles/850504.htm",
      "source_title": "Ranger Station/Residence, 1929",
      "identifier": "Article 850504; image 125CC4B0-1DD8-B71B-0B170C23AD964CF1",
      "credit": "NPS",
      "photographer": "Individual photographer not identified by NPS",
      "collection": "NPS cultural landscape record",
      "date": {
        "start": 1929,
        "end": 1929,
        "precision": "year",
        "label": "1929",
        "basis": "Year printed in the individual image caption; no day or month supplied."
      },
      "rights": {
        "status": "public-domain",
        "basis": "Image explicitly credited to NPS on the individual cultural-landscape article; no third-party or copyright credit. NPS Disclaimer, Ownership, applies to NPS-created material.",
        "credit": "NPS",
        "policy_url": "https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/disclaimer.htm"
      },
      "image": "images/ranger-station-1929.jpg",
      "thumbnail": "images/ranger-station-1929.jpg",
      "width": 638,
      "height": 482,
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      "evidence_class": "reference",
      "medium": "NPS article JPEG; original supplied framing retained",
      "camera": {
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        "coordinates": null
      },
      "date_checked": "2026-10-02"
    }
  ],
  "places": [
    {
      "id": "amphitheater",
      "label": "Amphitheater & rim",
      "kind": "approximate area",
      "coordinates": [
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      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "hb-map-nps"
      ],
      "note": "Editorial label between the sourced Sunrise, Sunset and Bryce Point orientation anchors; not a surveyed area or camera station."
    },
    {
      "id": "lodge-area",
      "label": "Lodge area",
      "kind": "group orientation anchor",
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      "source_ids": [
        "hb-map-nps"
      ],
      "note": "NPS Public POI 1007, Bryce Canyon Lodge; accuracy unknown. Also groups the nearby historic housing story; not the cabin or residence location."
    },
    {
      "id": "sinking-ship",
      "label": "Sinking Ship",
      "kind": "named feature locator",
      "coordinates": [
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      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "hb-map-gnis"
      ],
      "note": "GNIS 1445620 name locator retained from the accepted northern study; not a photographed viewpoint."
    },
    {
      "id": "hat-shop",
      "label": "Hat Shop area",
      "kind": "study-area center",
      "coordinates": [
        -112.1441,
        37.5916
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "hb-map-gnis"
      ],
      "note": "Accepted southern study center referencing GNIS Hat Shop 1441625; approximate trail/landform context, not the location of these three columns."
    },
    {
      "id": "unlocated",
      "label": "Unlocated park road",
      "kind": "unlocated",
      "coordinates": null,
      "source_ids": [
        "hb-nps-road"
      ],
      "note": "Park-wide caption only. Deliberately absent from the map."
    }
  ],
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    {
      "year": 1920,
      "label": "Tourist Rest",
      "text": "Ruby and Minnie Syrett establish Tourist Rest near what is now Sunset Point.",
      "source_id": "hb-nps-centennial"
    },
    {
      "year": 1923,
      "label": "National monument",
      "text": "On June 8, Bryce Canyon National Monument is proclaimed under Forest Service administration.",
      "source_id": "hb-nps-centennial"
    },
    {
      "year": 1924,
      "label": "Lodge construction",
      "text": "Construction begins on Bryce Canyon Lodge.",
      "source_id": "hb-nps-centennial"
    },
    {
      "year": 1928,
      "label": "National park",
      "text": "On September 15, establishment conditions are met and management passes to the National Park Service.",
      "source_id": "hb-nps-centennial"
    },
    {
      "year": 1933,
      "label": "North Campground",
      "text": "North Campground is built, adding to the park’s visitor infrastructure.",
      "source_id": "hb-nps-centennial"
    },
    {
      "year": 1938,
      "label": "Winter road access",
      "text": "State crews arrange to plow the park road so the park can remain open year-round.",
      "source_id": "hb-nps-centennial"
    }
  ],
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    "id": "hb-modern-thor",
    "image": "images/thors-hammer-modern.webp",
    "title": "Thor’s Hammer at sunrise",
    "source_id": "hb-nps-modern-thor",
    "source_url": "https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/6332472a-155d-451f-6738-af9012580dbf",
    "date_label": "Modern reference · capture date unverified",
    "date": null,
    "width": 900,
    "height": 717,
    "credit": "NPS Gallery; individual photographer not identified",
    "alt": "A color photograph of Thor’s Hammer and surrounding hoodoos beneath a purple sunrise sky.",
    "rights": "Explicit Public domain constraint and Full Granting Rights in NPGallery.",
    "source_baseline_path": "website/public/assets/thors-hammer-900.webp",
    "sha256": "7833185129d427102843670a11fbeda78ed68a8e678fa9d3efe03a3f28d91f72",
    "treatment": "Byte-identical reuse of existing 900-pixel WebP derivative. Full frame displayed. No new resampling, cropping, retouching or upscaling.",
    "date_note": "Embedded file timestamp: 2007-11-29; catalogue create date: 2010-07-16. Neither is asserted as the capture date.",
    "camera": {
      "known": false,
      "coordinates": null
    }
  },
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    "reference_id": "hb-modern-thor",
    "relationship": "same-named-subject",
    "camera_match": false,
    "change_measurement": false
  },
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    "coordinate_system": "WGS84 / EPSG:4326",
    "projection": "Simple linear lon/lat placement on a small orientation diagram, not a navigational map",
    "camera_positions": [],
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          "accuracy": "Unknown",
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        }
      },
      {
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        }
      },
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          "source_id": "nps-pois",
          "object_id": 7763,
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          "source_method": "NAIP, Harpers Ferry",
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          "kind": "mapped feature location; may require a walk from parking"
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "bryce-point",
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        "latitude": 37.605661,
        "coordinate_provenance": {
          "source_id": "nps-pois",
          "object_id": 7428,
          "source_name": "Bryce Point",
          "source_method": "NAIP, Harpers Ferry",
          "accuracy": "Unknown",
          "kind": "mapped feature location; may require a walk from parking"
        }
      }
    ],
    "limits": "Shading and curves are original illustrative layout, not measured boundaries, roads, trails or contours."
  }
}