Portland Rose Festival Parade- float 31 "Newberg"

Free to use This object is offered under a Creative Commons license. You are free to use it for any non-commercial purpose as long as you properly cite it, and if you share what you have created.

Learn more...

Japanese American Museum of Oregon
Visit partner

ddr-one-1-531 (ONLC 3356)

Frank C. Hirahara Collection

Color slide of Rose Festival Parade float 31 driving down W Burnside in front of a crowd outside a Blue Eagle Café on NW Second Ave. A sign for the Chinese Medicine Co can be seen in background. The float is a carriage covered in white and purple flowers with two women sitting inside waving at the crowd. The carriage is pulled by two brown horses driven by a man in a suit and top hat. One horse has a sign over his or her side reading "Newberg." On the side of the carriage is a small yellow sign with the number 31 on it. 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 June 14, 1964.

1948-1954

Photographs

Still Image

Japanese American Museum of Oregon; Portland, Oregon

Courtesy of Frank C. Hirahara Collection, Japanese American Museum of Oregon

API