{
 "schema": "nephos.method.v1",
 "slug": "wilder-woodstock-1884",
 "title": "Arthur Wilder, Untitled (Woodstock view), 1884",
 "urls": [
  "/studies/wilder-woodstock-1884"
 ],
 "written": {
  "summary": "The holder dates this garden view 1884. Matt Powers, the Center’s executive director, reads it as summer. June–August is a comparison season, not a documented execution window.",
  "items": [
   {
    "quote": "Untitled. Arthur Wilder. 1884.",
    "source": "Woodstock History Center, Recent Acquisitions",
    "url": "https://www.woodstockhistorycenter.org/articles/2021/3/26/recentacquistions"
   },
   {
    "quote": "The gardens suffer very much.",
    "source": "Hosea Doton, 6 July 1884; Fletcher transcript, PDF p. 34",
    "url": "https://pomfrethistoryvt.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Hosea-Doton-Diary-1884.pdf#page=34"
   }
  ]
 },
 "records": [
  {
   "name": "Hosea Doton’s 1884 diary",
   "detail": "Dated garden and weather accounts from Woodstock, with travel to Franklin and a later move to Pomfret kept distinct. Published transcription; manuscript not inspected.",
   "url": "https://pomfrethistoryvt.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Hosea-Doton-Diary-1884.pdf"
  },
  {
   "name": "NOAA and Dartmouth coverage checks",
   "detail": "Nearby GHCN files begin too late for this summer. Dartmouth’s older manuscript record remains an archival lead.",
   "url": "https://physics.dartmouth.edu/research/weather-archive"
  }
 ],
 "gaps": [
  "No dated painting session, work-specific making account or confirmed 1884 Dana House lodging.",
  "No full local daily instrument series or rainfall total is supplied by these selected diary passages."
 ],
 "tests": [
  {
   "claim": "Does a green garden establish an evenly moist summer?",
   "result": "No. Doton praised green grass in June but described severe drought and suffering gardens in July. His garden and the pictured plot are different places."
  },
  {
   "claim": "Does the diary identify the painted day or sky?",
   "result": "No. Summer remains a visual reading; no entry links this canvas to an observing day."
  },
  {
   "claim": "Does a little rain rule out drought?",
   "result": "No. Doton reported 0.3 inch on 5 July and described suffering gardens the following day. The reported accumulation is not a complete daily series."
  }
 ],
 "finding": "Green growth and water stress both belong to the local account of summer 1884. Doton praised grass in June and described suffering gardens in July. Neither fixes the day or weather of Wilder’s view.",
 "verdicts": [
  {
   "claim": "Summer garden context",
   "verdict": "Partially agrees",
   "reason": "Growth is documented locally, alongside water stress. This supports context for the visual reading, not a date or a match to the painted garden."
  },
  {
   "claim": "The painted weather and any artistic alteration",
   "verdict": "Unknown",
   "reason": "No documented day, local observation at the plot or account of making the picture."
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "The diary is an edited published transcription. Observer travel prevents treating every entry as Woodstock weather.",
  "Two reported rain amounts have different or unspecified accumulation periods; they are not summed.",
  "No open reproduction licence for the museum photograph was found."
 ]
}