Everyone remembered the chair facing the window. In the inventory photograph, it faced the wall. The dead supervisor's daughter thought the room had been rearranged before the family was invited to see it.
A cleaner's note explained that the chair was moved temporarily while a window seal dried. The photograph was taken during that repair. It accurately recorded one arrangement, but not the usual one the family remembered.
Curator Jan found an earlier staff photograph supporting their account. He retained both images with their contexts rather than choosing the more attractive view. The office's everyday layout and its condition on inventory day were different questions.
The daughter thanked him for not treating memory as automatically wrong because a photograph disagreed. Jan also kept the repair note visible, showing why this particular recollection could be supported. The room had already been repurposed, but its history no longer depended on forcing every surviving image and every remembered visit to describe the same moment.