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Portland Rose Festival (Portland, Or.)

 Organization

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Oral history interview with Edith I. A. Dailey

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9427
Abstract

Oral history interview with Edith I. A. Dailey conducted by Linda S. Dodds on April 21, 1982. Dailey discusses her experience as Portland Rose Festival queen in 1924.

Dates: 1982 April 21

Patricia J. Edwards photographic collection on the Junior Rose Festival

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 690
Abstract

Four black and white photographs of the court for the 1927 Junior Rose Festival in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1927

Bob Hope in Oregon photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1126
Abstract

Small collection of black and white photographs of Bob Hope, mostly in Oregon, including photos of Hope with Oregon Governor Tom McCall and with Queen Rhonda Anderson at the Portland Rose Festival in 1969.

Dates: circa 1919-1982

Malcolm P. Hutchinson artist renderings and photographs of parade floats

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1026
Abstract

Artist's renderings and photographs depicting parade floats designed from the 1930s to the 1950s by floral designer Malcolm P. Hutchinson (1899-1978) of Portland, Oregon. Most of the floats represented were designed for the Portland Rose Festival. Hutchinson worked for florist Tommy Luke until 1951, when he left to focus on the Hutchinson School of Floral Design, which he had founded in the 1940s.

Dates: circa 1931-1955

Mrs. Martin L. Johnson photographic collection on the Portland Fire Department

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 742
Abstract

Eight black and white photographs of Portland firefighters, horse-drawn fire trucks, a Portland Fire Department float in the Rose Parade and portraits of firefighter Glenn N. Griffin and Grace Batchelor.

Dates: circa 1894-1908

Helen Libonati photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 712
Abstract

Collection consists of 40 black and white photographs depicting scenes in Oregon and Washington, including Seaside; Timberline Lodge and Mt. Hood; Spirit Lake; the Vanport Flood in 1948; and the 1948 Rose Festival parade in Portland.

Dates: circa 1940-1949

Kina McKelvey letter to Merle McKelvey about Rose Festival parades

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 929
Abstract

Letter from Kina McKelvey (1884-1960) to her sister, Merle McKelvey (1888-1970), which describes Rose Festival parades that she had seen. Kina McKelvey lived in Portland, Oregon, and later Taft, Oregon; she married physician Thomas W. Ross (1884-1948) in 1914.

Dates: 1909 June 11

O'Reilly family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2970
Abstract

Collection includes diaries, scrapbooks, account books, correspondence, newspaper clippings, genealogy, photographs, memorabilia, certificates, legal documents, etc., of the O'Reilly family, including James Archbold O'Reilly and Anne O'Reilly, of Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1749-1999

Portland General Electric Co. floats photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 170
Abstract

Nine photographs of parade floats for Portland General Electric Co. in the Portland Rose Festival, 1954 and 1964, and an unidentified parade featuring rail cars depicting Oregon agriculture and industry.

Dates: circa 1900-1964

Panoramic photograph of Portland letter carriers with mailbags full of roses

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 270
Abstract

One black and white panoramic photograph of Portland letter carriers posing with mailbags full of roses for the Portland Rose Festival.

Dates: 1912 June 13

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Portland 11
photographs 8
Photographs 7
Oral Histories 3
Oregon 3
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Parades -- Oregon -- Portland 3
interviews 3
oral histories (literary genre) 3
City and Town Life 2
Parade floats -- Oregon -- Portland -- Photographs 2
Parades -- Oregon -- Portland -- Photographs 2
correspondence 2
Building management -- Oregon -- Portland 1
Children -- Oregon -- Portland -- 20th century -- Photographs 1
Children and Youth 1
City and town life -- Oregon -- Portland 1
Construction equipment -- Photographs 1
Festivals -- Oregon -- Portland 1
Fire departments -- Oregon -- Portland -- Photographs 1
Fire engines -- Oregon -- Portland -- Photographs 1
Fire engines -- Photographs 1
Fire fighters -- Oregon -- Portland -- Photographs 1
Floods -- Oregon -- Vanport -- Photographs 1
Home and Family 1
Hood, Mount (Or.) -- Photographs 1
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Oregon -- Portland -- Photographs 1
Letter carriers -- Oregon -- Portland -- Photographs 1
Orchards -- Oregon -- Hood River 1
Parade floats -- Oregon -- Portland -- Pictorial works 1
Parades -- Oregon -- Portland -- Slides 1
Performing Arts 1
Portland (Or.) -- Social life and customs 1
Portland (Or.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century 1
Portland Heights (Portland, Or.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century 1
Postal service -- Oregon -- Portland -- Employees -- Photographs 1
Real property -- Ireland -- 18th century 1
Seaside (Or.) -- Photographs 1
Secretaries -- Oregon -- Portland 1
Spirit Lake (Wash.) -- Photographs 1
Women 1
Women -- Oregon -- Portland -- Societies and clubs 1
account books 1
certificates 1
color slides 1
diaries 1
legal documents 1
panoramic photographs 1
printed ephemera 1
renderings (drawings) 1
scrapbooks 1
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