California — Photo Vault & Forensic Closeout

V3.7 • source-proof layer, not the missing original California.htm story

Historical integrity: The original California state-page story body is not present in the accessible Drive backups after an exhaustive structural search. V3.7 does not substitute the journal, photos, or later social-media text for that missing page.

23
organized-source photos re-verified

23/23
exact byte matches already in V3.6

0
EXIF tags in the 23 JPEGs

0
Drive originals changed

Important result: the descriptive California files below were already preserved in V3.6. This pass ties them back to the organized Drive source by filename, source ID, timestamp, hash, and exact-byte comparison instead of adding duplicate image files.

Date handling

The organized source records 2006 source-modified timestamps for these files, while Drive created-at timestamps are 2026 archive-import dates. Because all 23 JPEGs have no embedded EXIF, the actual camera capture date is left unknown.

What was exhausted before closing the missing-story search

Exact-name searches, FrontPage metadata shadows, the August Drive inventory size-band check, California photo roots and nested copy folders, sibling parent folders, the missing California_files companion-folder name, the 2003 Movie Maker project, and the available public web-index/archive-search route were all checked. No actual California.htm body was identified.

Open the separate recovered California journal history →

Open the earlier 403-file curated California recovery →

Organized-source verification set

**MVC-259F.JPG**
Source modified: 2006-05-26 18:22:57 UTC (not asserted as capture date)
EXIF: none • SHA-256 exact match to V3.6

**nikole 2.JPG**
Source modified: 2006-05-26 18:45:22 UTC (not asserted as capture date)
EXIF: none • SHA-256 exact match to V3.6

**nikole.jpg**
Source modified: 2006-05-26 18:45:22 UTC (not asserted as capture date)
EXIF: none • SHA-256 exact match to V3.6

**palm tree.JPG**
Source modified: 2006-05-26 18:45:23 UTC (not asserted as capture date)
EXIF: none • SHA-256 exact match to V3.6

**S.B. Sunset.JPG**
Source modified: 2006-05-26 18:45:23 UTC (not asserted as capture date)
EXIF: none • SHA-256 exact match to V3.6

**Santa Barbara View.JPG**
Source modified: 2006-05-26 18:45:23 UTC (not asserted as capture date)
EXIF: none • SHA-256 exact match to V3.6

**Santa barbara wharf.JPG**
Source modified: 2006-05-26 18:45:23 UTC (not asserted as capture date)
EXIF: none • SHA-256 exact match to V3.6

**SantaBarbara.JPG**
Source modified: 2006-05-26 18:45:23 UTC (not asserted as capture date)
EXIF: none • SHA-256 exact match to V3.6

**shoulder ride.JPG**
Source modified: 2006-05-26 18:45:23 UTC (not asserted as capture date)
EXIF: none • SHA-256 exact match to V3.6

**sunset palm tree.JPG**
Source modified: 2006-05-26 18:45:23 UTC (not asserted as capture date)
EXIF: none • SHA-256 exact match to V3.6

**Uncle merrill and paulette.JPG**
Source modified: 2006-05-26 18:45:24 UTC (not asserted as capture date)
EXIF: none • SHA-256 exact match to V3.6

**Uncle merrill and Son Glen.JPG**
Source modified: 2006-05-26 18:45:24 UTC (not asserted as capture date)
EXIF: none • SHA-256 exact match to V3.6

**universal with cousins.JPG**
Source modified: 2006-05-26 18:45:24 UTC (not asserted as capture date)
EXIF: none • SHA-256 exact match to V3.6

**water color sky painting.JPG**
Source modified: 2006-05-26 18:45:24 UTC (not asserted as capture date)
EXIF: none • SHA-256 exact match to V3.6

**which way do we go.JPG**
Source modified: 2006-05-26 18:45:24 UTC (not asserted as capture date)
EXIF: none • SHA-256 exact match to V3.6

**woody and nikole.JPG**
Source modified: 2006-05-26 18:46:23 UTC (not asserted as capture date)
EXIF: none • SHA-256 exact match to V3.6

**woody and zak.JPG**
Source modified: 2006-05-26 18:46:23 UTC (not asserted as capture date)
EXIF: none • SHA-256 exact match to V3.6

**woody that my hat.JPG**
Source modified: 2006-05-26 18:46:23 UTC (not asserted as capture date)
EXIF: none • SHA-256 exact match to V3.6

**zak and ben.JPG**
Source modified: 2006-05-26 18:46:23 UTC (not asserted as capture date)
EXIF: none • SHA-256 exact match to V3.6

**ZAK AND SPIDERMAN.JPG**
Source modified: 2006-05-26 18:46:23 UTC (not asserted as capture date)
EXIF: none • SHA-256 exact match to V3.6

**zak and statues.JPG**
Source modified: 2006-05-26 18:46:23 UTC (not asserted as capture date)
EXIF: none • SHA-256 exact match to V3.6

**zakary.jpg**
Source modified: 2006-05-26 18:46:23 UTC (not asserted as capture date)
EXIF: none • SHA-256 exact match to V3.6

**Zaks new haircut.JPG**
Source modified: 2006-05-26 18:46:23 UTC (not asserted as capture date)
EXIF: none • SHA-256 exact match to V3.6

Open 23-photo source-proof contact sheet →