1942 Portland Rose Festival court and crown bearer at coronation
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- 1942-06-10
Photograph showing Portland Rose Festival Queen Shirley Fowler on her throne at her crowning in the Portland Public Auditorium (now the Keller Auditorium) on June 10, 1042. Gathered around her are the Rose Festival princesses and the crown bearer. In the bottom row, from left, are Jean Hart from Jane Addams High School; Marlene Hohenleitner, crown bearer; and Leona Kunce from Girls Polytechnic High School. In the center row, from left, are Margaret Ann Tate from Commerce High School; Margaret Grasle from Lincoln High School; Janis Korlann from Grant High School; and Madelyn Devaney from Jefferson High School. In the back row, from left, are Janet Newman from Washington High School; Fowler, from Franklin High School; and Jean Grashorn from Roosevelt High School. A cropped version of this photograph was published on the second page of a two-page spread of Rose Festival photographs published in the Oregon Journal on Thursday, June 11, 1942. Image note: The number 3 is written on the negative and is faintly visible in the lower left corner of the image.