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  • Y-540612-057. Television show host Ed Sullivan and Rose Festival Queen Jan Markstaller in the Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade, June 12, 1954.
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  • Rose Festival parade, Friday, June 8, 1951 "Panorama of blossom-decked floats, assembled in Multnomah stadium for the 43d annual grand floral parade of the Portland Rose Festival, contains several prize winners, In front, left to right, are Shell Oil float, first prize in its section; Portland General Electric, public utilities winner; engine No. 3, first from Fire Bureau. At top, center, is Hollywood Boosters' replica of the Skidmore Fountain, sweepstakes winner in the commercial division, and immediately below  it is the noncommercial sweepstakes winner of the Vancouver Fire department. Pasadena entry, another winner, is at right."
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  • Rose Festival crowds at SW 6th & Alder, looking south on 6th.  Pioneer Courthouse on left. June 9, 1950. "Crowds numbering into the thousands swept into the street after the parade passed each of the many blocks along its route. In this view, looking south on Sixth Avenue from Alder street, the massed throngs completely fill the wide street from building to building. This photograph was taken from one of the platforms erected by crews demolishing the old Oregonian building."
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  • Y-540612-020. Rose Festival, Grand Floral Parade. June 12, 1954. mermaid on "Neptune's Court" parade float in the Multnomah Stadium staging area.
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  • Y-540612-078. "Winner of sweepstakes in commercial division was Snow White and Seven Dwarfs entry of Meier & Frank Co., shown in stadium" caption published  Rose Festival, Grand Floral Parade. June 12, 1954.
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  • Rose Festival floats in Multnomah Stadium. June 12, 1953
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  • ackroyd-00083-139.  "Timberline Lodge. In her final public appearance of the 1946 Rose Festival, Queen (?) Sunday night honored winners of the Golden Rose ski tournament. With George Henderson, tournament official, assisting, the queen presents a trophy to Gretchen Fraser, Suski Ski club, Vancouver Wash., first in the women's event. Behind Miss Fraser is the runner-up, Shirley Fopp, Jackson Hole, Wyo." (Golden Rose Races and Festival Queen's dinner. June 9, 1946)
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  • 9969-0897. Queen Frances I on her float in the 1932 Rose Festival Parade. June 17, 1932. 6th & Stark
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  • Y-500609-D46.  Rose Festival crowds at SW 6th & Alder, looking south on 6th.  Pioneer Courthouse on left. June 9, 1950.  Published in Oregonian June 10, 1950: “Crowds numbering into the thousands swept into the street after the parade passed each of the many blocks along its route. In this view, looking south on Sixth Avenue from Alder street, the massed throngs completely fill the wide street from building to building. This photograph was taken from one of the platforms erected by crews demolishing the old Oregonian building, which has provided vantage points for photographers who covered the Festival parades during their 42-year history.”
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  • June 9, 1950. "STADIUM. Hundreds of thousands of blooms and untold labor went into the construction of the floats that appeared early Friday in Multnomah stadium, where the judging was done for the Grand Floral parade that climaxed annual Portland Rose Festival."  (on the left exiting the stadium is the Queen's float carrying the queen and her princesses)
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  • Rose Festival Parade. SE 50th & Hawthorne. June 12, 1948. "Standard Oil company, with a scene from Arabian Nights, took top honors in the commercial classification of the 1948 floral parade Saturday." (Location is corner of SE 50th & Hawthorne)
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  • Y-590613-D3-01. Royal Rosarians Parade Chairman Ernie Burrows (right) is communicating information from the 1959 Rose Festival Parade plan book. The boy scout is relaying that information on a PRC-6 military walkie-talkie radio.
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  • Rose Festival ski jumps and show at Multnomah Stadium the nights of June 7-8, 1951
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  • Y-590613-D1-05. assembling in Multnomah Stadium. Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade, June 13, 1959
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  • 1956 Rose Festival
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  • Y-540612-081. Rose Festival, Grand Floral Parade. June 12, 1954.  "Mermaids. Second place in trade association's division went to Portland Retail Trade bureau's entry, ‘Neptune's Court.' Mermaids adorned the front of the colorful float, decorated mostly with daisies. Yellow sea shells with blue trim, orange starfish were on green, white base." caption published
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  • Y-540612-076. Queen Jan I being escorted by a Rosarian past a line of Rosarians. Rose Festival, Grand Floral Parade. June 12, 1954.
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  • Y-540612-069 Rosarian placing crown on Queen Jan I. On the left is the President of the Portland Rose Festival. June 12, 1954.
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  • Y-540612-007. Photographers and the press surround the Royal Court before the parade in Multnomah Stadium. Rose Festival, Grand Floral Parade. June 12, 1954.
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  • Y-530612-21. 1953 Rose Festival. Rosarians.
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  • Y-590613-D4-04. towing Queen's float uphill leaving Multnomah Stadium. Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade, June 13, 1959
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  • Y-540612-017. Queen Jan I being positioned on the top of her float. Rose Festival, Grand Floral Parade. June 12, 1954.
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  • Y-530612-25. Rose Festival, June 12, 1953. Halloween Jack-o-Lantern, PP&L, Pacific Power & Light float. 12 feet in diameter. Won second place in the division for public utilities and transportation. Photo taken on Burnside bridge.
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  • 1307C-05 Jugo Slavia (Yugoslavia) float in the Rose Festival Parade of Nations, June 11, 1929
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  • Rose Festval court June 13, 1952. Portland Multnomah Stadium
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  • CS02054.  POVA Visitors Information center, SW Front Ave. looking east. January 28, 1972. Later the McCall’s restaurant, now the Rose Festival Headquarters.
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  • Rose Festival ski jumps and show at Multnomah Stadium. June 7, 1951. "TRYOUT. Skiers made preliminary runs Thursday on the 155-foot high ski jump at Multnomah Stadium after tons of crushed ice and snow...
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  • CS00636-03. Ships on West bank of Willamette during Portland Rose Festival, June 1959. Oregon Journal building in background.
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  • 530608-01.  The USS Algol, KA54, a US Navy attack transport, is passing through the swing span of the old Morrison bridge. Berthed by the west bank are the USS Shoveler, AM-382, and USS Zeal, AM-131. They are the US Navy’s Rosaria fleet for the Rose Festival, along with the USS Helena, CA-75 in the background.  June 8, 1953
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  • Ackroyd 02250-1. "Margaret Whiting & Rosarians at airport. June 7, 1950" (famous country & popular music singer appearing at Rose Festival)
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  • CS02053. POVA Visitors Information center, SW Front Ave. view from Hawthorne Bridge. February 17, 1977. Later the McCall’s restaurant, now the Rose Festival Headquarters.
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  • 9969-510520-05. POVA Visitors Information Center, later McCalls and now the Rose Festival headquarters on Waterfront Park. May 20, 1951
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  • 1101-C5-33 Cotillion Hall float, Rose Festival parade, June 13, 1941. In the background is Rich's Cigar Store, SW 6th & Washington. Dupont nitrate 35mm film. Reconstructed identification, dated 1941 by comparing Retail Trade Bureau float with photo in Oregonian 6/14/41 pg. 10. The "Cotillion Ballroom" float is identified in the list of floats published the day of the parade in the Oregonian, 6/13/41 pg. 8, col. 4. (The Cotillion Ballroom is now the Crystal Ballroom)
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  • Ackroyd C04574-4. "Benjamin Franklin Savings & Loan. Aerials with Navy ships. June 11, 1978" (Navy ships on Waterfront Park for Rose Festival. Benjamin Franklin Plaza is now called Umpqua Bank Plaza)
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  • Portland Harbor, ship passing under the Broadway Bridge. Canadian cruiser. Boat on left is P&T Pathfinder. Photo was taken from the Steel Bridge. On extreme right is neighborhood that was demolished to build the Memorial Coliseum. June 8, 1949 caption of different photo published 6/9/49 pg. 42: "Canadian cruiser Ontario as she appeared from the raised structure of the Steel bridge as she reared her berth at Portland's harbor-wall Wednesday for a five-day Rose Festival visit."
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  • CS03386. Portland Waterfront, old Harbor Drive, Hawthorne Bridge, Rose Festival June 1971 submarine, circus, taken from Morrison bridge looking south.
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  • Roy Rogers and his horse Trigger, Rose Festival, Grand Floral Parade. June 12, 1954
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  • Y-540612-005. Rose Festival, Grand Floral Parade. June 12, 1954. KOIN radio interviews children on float 19
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  • Y-510607-DD81. "Daredevil. Even the ski-jumpers held their breath when Multnomah County Sheriff's Deputy Emil Kreofsky spurred his bucking cycle through the flaming hoop at the Thursday night show. Twelve deputies in all took part in the stunt riding exhibition." Caption published in The Oregonian, June 8, 1951 pg. 28. Rose Festival show at Multnomah Stadium the nights of June 7, 1951
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  • 9111-163. “Rose Festival Week June 14, 1927." Portland, SW 5th from Yamhill, looking north. Meier & Frank store. Irvington trolley, car #425.
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  • 1304A-160B. "First auto in Portland" June 10, 1914. Rose Festival Parade. see Oregonian 6/11/14 pg. 9 “Ancient Specimen Snorts, But Goes. It coughed and wheezed its way along the street, but despite its age, it kept on going. It was one of the first models  of the Haynes-Apperson. It was brought to Portland in 1900 by E. H. Wemme
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  • 9969-510520-06. POVA Visitors Information Center, later McCalls and now the Rose Festival headquarters on Waterfront Park, between Front Ave. and the Seawall. May 20, 1951
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  • ackroyd-00067-42. "Rose Festival Parade. Aerials. June 13, 1947 (Eastside business district.)
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  • Y-550610. Star theatre pinups on SW Broadway between Jefferson and Columbia. Oregonian Building in background. (Rose Festival)
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  • Y-590612-01. Canadian ships lighted on old Harbor Drive seawall (presently Waterfront Park) view from Hawthorne Bridge looking north. June 12, 1959.
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  • Y-510608-D41."Story Hour, This illustration of the ‘Story Book Hour' by the Portland retail trade bureau won for first place in competition for trade associations. The float featured a group of children hearing a story., while behind and above them a fairy princess, Sally Phillips, waved wand." Caption published in Oregonian, June 9, 1951. float crossing Burnside Bridge note White Satin Sugar sign in upper left corner.
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  • CS01116-02. Portland Waterfront, west side, looking North from Hawthorne Bridge. USS Algol KA-54, June 1953 POVA Visitor's Information Center on left, old Morrison Bridge on right.
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  • Y-540819-5. waterfront north of Hawthorne Bridge. POVA Visitors Information Center. August 19, 1954
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  • Rainier Beer Sunbust, rock festival at Washington Park ampitheater, September 11, 1971.
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  • Rainier Beer Sunbust, rock festival at Washington Park ampitheater, September 11, 1971. Paul deLay
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