Portland Rose Festival Parade- Margaret Whiting and Marching Band
PARTNER
Japanese American Museum of Oregon
Visit partner
OBJECT ID
ddr-one-1-173 (ONLC 2997)
PARENT COLLECTION
DESCRIPTION
Color slide of a car with a female passenger in a fur coat and sign reading "Margaret Whiting". The car is followed by a marching band in green uniforms and three baton twirlers in white uniforms marching the Portland Rose Festival Parade. They are traveling down W Burnside in front of a crowd outside the Riverfront Hotel and Cafe. In the background an advertisement for Chevrolet is visible on the side of the Portland Commons Annex. The Rose Festival Parade is an annual event in which floats are made out of flowers and paraded down the streets of Portland.
DATE
1950
LOCATION
OBJECT GENRE
Photographs
OBJECT FORMAT
Still Image
FACILITY
CREATORS
- Hirahara, Frank (photographer)
PERSONS/ORGANIZATIONS
CONTRIBUTOR
Japanese American Museum of Oregon; Portland, Oregon
PREFERRED CITATION
Courtesy of Frank C. Hirahara Collection, Japanese American Museum of Oregon
RIGHTS
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
