Portland Rose Festival Parade- float 18 "Sailing"
PARTNER
Japanese American Museum of Oregon
Visit partner
OBJECT ID
ddr-one-1-472 (ONLC 3296)
PARENT COLLECTION
DESCRIPTION
Color slide of Rose Festival Parade float 18 driving down W Burnside in front of a crowd gathered outside the Noon Bag Company building. On the side of the building is an advertisement for San Juan Slacks. The float is a large sailboat with six women riding inside, one is holding a pink ribbon. The sail of the boat reads "4-H" and the side of the float reads "Clackamas Co." Written on the front of the float is "Sailing" and a small yellow sign is above with the number 18. Behind the float march an unidentified group dress in blue carring a blue flag and the American flag. The Portland Rose Festival Parade is an annual event in which floats are made out of flowers and paraded down the streets of Portland. According to donor processed on July 3, 1952.
DATE
1948-1954
LOCATION
OBJECT GENRE
Photographs
OBJECT FORMAT
Still Image
TOPICS
- Geographic communities -- Oregon -- Portland
- Community activities -- Associations and organizations -- Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America
- Community activities -- Festivals, celebrations, and holidays -- Portland Rose Festival
- World War II -- Leaving camp -- "Resettlement"
- World War II -- Leaving camp -- Returning home
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.
