Portland Rose Festival Association records 1907-2007

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Portland Rose Festival Association records 1907-2007

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Records of an organization of Portland, Oregon, founded in 1907, that produces the city's annual Rose Festival. Early records (designated Mss 1528) include minutes of meetings, 1907-1908, programs, publicity materials, and ephemera. Later records (designated Mss 1528-1) mostly date from 1942 to 1992 and contain extensive administrative records for each year's festival, financial records, publicity materials, and ephemera. There is some overlap in documentation between the two collections.

223 cubic feet; 6 document cases, 211 record cartons, 30 volumes, 1 oversize folder, 1 oversize volume

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Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6373312

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Rose Festival Association (Portland, Or.)

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The Portland Rose Festival had it origins in the 1904 rose show and parade, sponsored by the Portland Rose Society. After the flurry of civic boosterism during the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition, Portland businessman E. W. Rose proposed in 1906 an annual festival to include a grand floral parade and related events. In the following year, 1907, the Portland Rose Festival Association was founded. In 1912 the Royal Rosarians -- a ceremonial corps of men (with women later) -- was formed to support ...

Portland Rose Festival

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