{
 "schema": "nephos.method.v1",
 "slug": "bernstein-armistice-day-1919",
 "title": "Theresa Bernstein, Armistice Day Parade: The Altar of Liberty",
 "urls": [
  "/studies/bernstein-armistice-day-1919"
 ],
 "written": {
  "summary": "The canvas is signed 1919. Smith’s current object label names a 1918 parade; its 2018 essay places Bernstein there a year after the armistice. These are competing accounts of the occasion, not alternative dates for the canvas.",
  "items": [
   {
    "quote": "1918 Armistice Day parade",
    "source": "Smith College Museum of Art, current object label, SC 2015.42",
    "url": "https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/api/permalink/object/5035883"
   },
   {
    "quote": "One year later, Bernstein watched the Armistice Day parade",
    "source": "Danielle Carrabino, Smith essay, 9 November 2018",
    "url": "https://scma.smith.edu/blog/theresa-bernstein-scma-armistice-day-parade-0"
   }
  ]
 },
 "records": [
  {
   "name": "Central Park daily observations",
   "detail": "Daily minimum, maximum and precipitation for each candidate day, from the station then at the Arsenal. Neither hour nor cloud cover is established.",
   "url": "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/all/USW00094728.dly"
  },
  {
   "name": "New York Times, 12 November 1918 and 1919",
   "detail": "Next-day accounts of the celebrations and separate local Weather Bureau office temperatures. Selected passages transcribed from the scans.",
   "url": "https://archive.org/details/sim_new-york-times_1918-11-12_68_22207/page/n4/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Altar dedication, 28 September 1918",
   "detail": "A next-day newspaper report places the dedication in Madison Square; a verified removal date remains missing.",
   "url": "https://archive.org/details/sim_new-york-times_1918-09-29_67_22163/page/n0/"
  }
 ],
 "gaps": [
  "The original journal and its date have not been checked; Smith’s excerpt is undated.",
  "No execution day or outdoor painting session is established.",
  "The altar’s removal date and independently witnessed presence on either candidate day are unresolved."
 ],
 "tests": [
  {
   "claim": "The object label’s 1918 event attribution",
   "result": "The newspaper reports celebrations up and down Fifth Avenue on that day. This fits the proposed setting but does not identify the painting."
  },
  {
   "claim": "The essay’s implied 1919 event attribution",
   "result": "The anniversary report describes memorial gatherings and a Brooklyn military parade. It neither establishes nor excludes a parade at this altar."
  },
  {
   "claim": "Weather can distinguish the pictured occasion",
   "result": "The daily records differ, but no dated weather claim connects either record to the painted sky."
  }
 ],
 "finding": "The checked context favours the 1918 attribution, without resolving the conflicting museum accounts. The signed date remains 1919. Smith documents Bernstein simplifying the monument’s map into colour; the records establish no corresponding change to the sky.",
 "verdicts": [
  {
   "claim": "1918 parade context",
   "verdict": "Partially agrees",
   "reason": "The newspaper places celebrations on Fifth Avenue, but does not identify this composition."
  },
  {
   "claim": "Which Armistice Day the painting shows",
   "verdict": "Unknown",
   "reason": "Neither the selected newspapers, the incomplete monument history nor the weather settles the conflicting accounts."
  },
  {
   "claim": "Weather of the painted sky",
   "verdict": "Unknown",
   "reason": "No painted hour, dated sky claim or on-site cloud observation is established."
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "Central Park and the newspaper’s high-level office thermometer are separate records, not averaged together.",
  "A dry daily gauge is not proof of clear sky; a precipitation total does not date a shower to a parade.",
  "Newspaper OCR omissions are unknowns, not evidence that an event did not occur.",
  "Research and transcription checking were solo; no independent checker is claimed."
 ]
}