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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Collection consists of 129 color slides of the Portland Rose Festival parade in 1946, 1958, and 1961.

Black and white photographs, 1911, of the Portland Rose Festival parade, a steam-powered fire engine, and a steam-powered crane.