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img Portland Rose Festival Parade- float 42 (ddr-one-1-167)

Color slide of Rose Festival Parade float 42 going down W Burnside in front of a crowd outside the Shoreline Hotel and Cafe. The float has a small pink elephant sitting on its hind legs with two men sitting in front. The float is pulled by a team of Shetland ponies. The Rose Festival Parade is …

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img Portland Rose Festival Parade- Marching Band (ddr-one-1-147)

Color slide of a baton twirler in pink and yellow marching uniform in front of large marching band in red uniforms marching down W Burnside in the Portland Rose Festival Parade. In the background a sign for the Blue Eagle Cafe is visible. The Rose Festival Parade is an annual event in which floats are made …

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img Portland Rose Festival Parade- float 39 (ddr-one-1-462)

Color slide of Rose Festival Parade float 39 driving down W Burnside in front of a crowd gathered outside the Shoreline Hotel and Anchor Inn. In the background a sign for the Blue Eagle Cafe is visible. The float is of a large rainbow with women dressed in each color sitting around the top of the …

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img Portland Rose Festival Parade- Hopalong Cassidy (ddr-one-1-555)

Color slide of Hopalong Cassidy in gray pants and a white shirt with red embroidery waves a white cowboy hat at the crowd gathered to watch the Portland Rose Festival Parade. He is riding his large brown horse past Blue Eagle Café on W Burnside and NW Second Ave. The Portland Rose Festival Parade is an …

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img Portland Rose Festival Parade- Float 33 (ddr-one-1-139)

Color slide of Rose Festival Parade float 33 driving down W Burnside in front of a crowd gathered outside the Shoreline Hotel, Anchor Inn, Grant Hotel and Sailor's Union of the Pacific. The float is of large elephant and baby, with a rider in blue sitting on the large elephant's trunk waving a purple ribbon. The …

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img Family photograph (ddr-densho-66-2)

Fujii family sisters and mother: Back (L to R): Junko/June, Mom Shizue, Rinko (Dorothy); Front (L to R): Fujiko/Fudge, Renko, Kinko/Rose.

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img Portland Rose Festival Parade- Victoria Girl's Drill Corps (ddr-one-1-176)

Color slide of Victoria's all girls drill team marching in the Rose Festival Parade on W Burnside in front of a crowd outside a Bekins Storage. The women are dressed in white uniforms with pink and purple capes. The Rose Festival Parade is an annual event in which floats are made out of flowers and paraded …

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img Samuel Wilder King meeting with two high school students (ddr-njpa-2-552)

Caption on reverse: "KING EXPLAINS CONSTITUTION: Explaining some of the principles involved in drawing up the Hawaiian constitution to Rose Kashiwabara and Harriet Yoshinaga, reporters of Farrington high school's student newspaper, The Governor, is Samuel Wilder King, president of Hawaii's state constitutional convention. King will be guest speaker at a meeting of the Farrington high school …

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img Issei man in graduation cap and gown (ddr-densho-259-500)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Portrait of Senichi Tomihiro in cap and gown. This may corroborate Chiye Tomihiro's statement that her father had graduated from a law school in the U.S." Signature on photograph: "Sincerely yours, S. Tomihiro."

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img Nisei bride in kimono (ddr-densho-259-367)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Wedding photograph, in a Japanese kimono, of Jane Kyono Jane was born in 1915 in Hood River [Oregon] and married Tokutaro Ted Mori before WWII."

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img Women in garden (ddr-densho-359-372)

Michiko Amatatsu and Miyoko Mikami pose while at a Girls' Club Picnic.

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 27 No. 12 (September 18, 1948) (ddr-pc-20-37)

Selected article titles: "Government Waits Arrival of 'Tokyo Rose' d'Aquino For Indictment for Treason" (p. 1), "Civil Liberties in Danger, Ennis Says in Interview" (p. 2).

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img Sorelles Group Photo (ddr-one-1-20)

Black and white photographic negative of the Sorelles, a high school social group. Left to right: Rose Haruye (Muramatsu) Ouchida, Kathleen "Kathie" Haruko (Matsuda) Sato, Aki (Shiraishi) Dong, Loretta (Fujii) Kaneko, Mary (Nakata) Fujii, Frances (Kinoshita) Mayeda, Grace (Sakano) Robbs, Sumi "Sue" (Kaga) Hasegawa, Lillian (Niimi) Mikariya, Masae “Elsie” (Morita) Onishi, Rose Namba, Jayne (Katada) Furukawa, …

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img Sorelles Group Photo (ddr-one-1-19)

Original black and white photographic print of the Sorelles, a high school social group. Left to right: Rose Haruye (Muramatsu) Ouchida, Kathleen "Kathie" Haruko (Matsuda) Sato, Aki (Shiraishi) Dong, Loretta (Fujii) Kaneko, Mary (Nakata) Fujii, Frances (Kinoshita) Mayeda, Grace (Sakano) Robbs, Sumi "Sue" (Kaga) Hasegawa, Lillian (Niimi) Mikariya, Masae “Elsie” (Morita) Onishi, Rose Namba, Jayne (Katada) …

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img Russian River (ddr-densho-357-234)

Delegates attend an outing to the Russian River during an Oakland Young Men's and Women's Buddhist Association Conference. Left to right: Rose Negi, Hanako Yoshioka, Niig Mitoma.

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img Portland Rose Festival Parade float- Chamber of Commerce (ddr-one-1-504)

Color slide of the back of the Chamber of Commerce float driving down SW Third Ave in front of a large crowd outside a drug store in the Portland Rose Festival Parade. Eight women in pink gowns sit on the float, seven in front and one on top in the back with a large white cape- …

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img Horse and rider in the Rose Parade (ddr-csujad-42-214)

A photograph of a man riding on a horse in the 1938 Tournament of Roses Parade. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: tak_02_05_019

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img Float in the Portland Rose Festival Parade (ddr-densho-259-163)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Two horses pulling a flatbed wagon which is draped with representations of the rising run flag and the starry blue & white field of the American flag. Four Nihonjin girls in kimono, holding paper parasols, stand under a branching double-decked tree made out of what appears to be paper roses. There's also …

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img Issei men preparing for Portland's Rose Festival (ddr-densho-259-138)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Masuo Yasui] and Katsusaburo Tamura, dressed in all-white clothing They must have been so dressed because they were going to take part in Portland's first Rose Festival parade." Photograph taken outside the Portland Japanese Methodist Mission.

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img Japanese Community entry to Portland Rose Festival (ddr-densho-259-598)

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img Portland Rose Festival Parade Float- "Timber Carnival" (ddr-one-1-136)

Color slide of a Rose Festival Parade Float driving down W Burnside in front of a crowd outside W.L. Reid Company Building Hardware Specialties. The float depicts a carousel with children riding and waving to the crowd. A man in a blue suit jacket and gray pants escorts the float. The side of the float reads …

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img Portland Rose Festival Parade- float 14 "Shell" (ddr-one-1-169)

Color slide of Rose Festival float 14 driving down W Burnside in front of a crowd outside W.L. Reid Company Building Hardware Specialties and the Riverfront Hotel and Cafe. An advertisement for Chevrolet is visible in the background on the side of the Portland Commons Annex. The float depicts a tiger jumping through a hoop. A …

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img Portland Rose Festival Parade- "Tom and Huck" (ddr-one-1-468)

Color slide of a Rose Festival Parade float driving down W Burnside in front of a crowd gathered outside the Noon Bag Company building. The float depicts Tom and Huckleberry Finn riding on a raft. Two boys are dressed up as the characters and wave to the crowd. The side of the float reads "University of …

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img Portland Rose Festival Parade- Float 43 "Kiwanis" (ddr-one-1-159)

Color slide of Rose Festival Parade float 43 driving down W Burnside in front of a crowd outside the Shoreline Hotel. The sign for the Blue Eagle Cafe is visible in the background as well as a woman dressed in a Native American costume riding a Paint horse. The float is a large clown head with …

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img Portland Rose Festival Parade- float 26 "Beaverton" (ddr-one-1-535)

Color slide of Rose Festival Parade float 26 driving down W Burnside past a crowd outside Dr. Geo Chan's office and the Chinese Medicine Company during the Rose Festival Parade. The float is made of red flowers and has a carriage on top made of red and white flowers and is pulled by a horse made …

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