Black-and-white photograph: Rose Festival, Willamette River with Destroyers, 1940s. Location: Portland, Oregon. Date: c. 1940s.

Rose Festival, Willamette River with Destroyers, 1940s

c. 1940s  ·  Portland, Oregon

The Portland Rose Festival on the Willamette River, with U.S. Navy destroyers dressed with signal flags for the annual celebration. The ships are four-stack flush-deck destroyers of the First World War building programme; naval visits during Rose Festival week were a recurring Photo-Art Studio subject. Date not established from the negative.

Date
c. 1940s
Location
Portland, Oregon
Archive ID
R16456-1
Photographer
Photo-Art Studio (Portland, Oregon)
Format
16-bit TIFF master · scanned from original negative
Rose FestivalPortlandWillamette RiverNaval Fleet Visit1940s

Photo-Art Studio commercial archive (Portland, Oregon); acquired by Stephen Ingham 2001. Donated to the Oregon Historical Society in two parts — the bulk in 2002–2003 and the remainder in 2007 (Org. Lot 791); editorial rights retained.

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