{
 "schema": "nephos.method.v1",
 "slug": "dismukes-mississippi-farm-c1940",
 "title": "Mary Ethel Dismukes, The Mississippi Farm, about 1940",
 "urls": [
  "/studies/dismukes-mississippi-farm-c1940"
 ],
 "written": {
  "summary": "Huntsville catalogues the canvas c. 1940. Natalie Mead identifies Biloxi and the family farm as likely; the historical society confirms residence at the address, not the subject. No month, season or making account is documented.",
  "items": [
   {
    "quote": "The Mississippi Farm, c. 1940",
    "source": "Huntsville Museum of Art catalogue card, 2009.06",
    "url": "https://nephos-mocha.vercel.app/data/studies/dismukes-mississippi-farm-c1940.json"
   },
   {
    "quote": "likely depicts Dismukes's family farm at 113 Lameuse Street in Biloxi, Mississippi",
    "source": "Natalie Mead, email to the author, 19 October 2026",
    "url": "https://nephos-mocha.vercel.app/data/studies/dismukes-mississippi-farm-c1940.json"
   },
   {
    "quote": "She resided at 113 Lameuse Street with her mother.",
    "source": "Ray L. Bellande, Biloxi Historical Society",
    "url": "https://biloxihistoricalsociety.org/dismukes-mary-ethel"
   }
  ]
 },
 "records": [
  {
   "name": "Biloxi, USC00220792, NOAA/NCEI GHCN-Daily",
   "detail": "All twelve months of 1939, 1940 and 1941, separately. 34 complete monthly temperature means; the two flagged months stay blank. No complete observed rainfall totals.",
   "url": "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/all/USC00220792.dly"
  },
  {
   "name": "Same-station January comparison",
   "detail": "January 1940 averaged 40.7 °F (4.8 °C), coolest of 77 complete Januaries retained from the pinned file. This does not date the painting.",
   "url": "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/all/USC00220792.dly"
  }
 ],
 "gaps": [
  "Farm identification remains likely. The historical instrument site and distance to the depicted place are unverified.",
  "Green vegetation and large clouds in a small thumbnail do not establish a season, rain event or measured temperature."
 ],
 "tests": [
  {
   "claim": "Does the address establish the painted farm?",
   "result": "No. The curator proposes it as likely; the historical society confirms residence only."
  },
  {
   "claim": "Can the circa date support weather context?",
   "result": "Yes. Three separate annual profiles show the local temperature record without choosing a painted year or season."
  },
  {
   "claim": "Does the cold January contradict the landscape?",
   "result": "No. A circa-dated picture with no month cannot be tested against January weather."
  }
 ],
 "finding": "A likely Biloxi subject beside three separate years of thermometer records. The cold January is context; the depicted day and sky remain unknown.",
 "verdicts": [
  {
   "claim": "The painted day and sky",
   "verdict": "Unknown",
   "reason": "No date or observation ties the scene to the station."
  },
  {
   "claim": "What Dismukes changed",
   "verdict": "Unknown",
   "reason": "No object-specific account establishes outdoor execution, recollection or studio revision."
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "1939–1941 are comparison years, not documentary limits on the circa date.",
  "January ranking describes complete archived months, not a climate normal or a homogenized cold record.",
  "Missing and quality-flagged readings stay missing. Presumed precipitation zeros do not become measured dry days.",
  "No image reuse basis has been established; the supplied thumbnail is not reproduced."
 ]
}