Three-quarters portrait of Portland Rose Festival Queen Frances Kanzler, a senior at Washington High School, seated on a throne and holding a large bouquet of roses. A similar version of this photograph was published on Page 1 of the Oregon Journal on June 5, 1932, under the headline “Queen Frances of Rosaria!” and with the following caption: “Frances Kanzler of Washington high school.” The text “Queen Frances Kanzler” is written on the negative and is faintly visible at the bottom of the photograph. Image note: Photograph shows discoloration due to deterioration of the negative.

Photograph showing Portland Rose Festival King Mac Lewis, Queen Nina Kitts, Grand Prince Arthur Markewitz, and Grand Princess Doris Phillips on a platform at Multnomah Field during the coronation ceremony on Wednesday, June 13, 1917. The king and queen are holding up a large ornamental key to the city. A cropped version of this photograph was published on Page 8, Section 3, of the Oregon Journal on Sunday, June 17, 1917, under the headline “Sunshine Smiles Upon Youthful Rulers and Festival Center That Is Their Kingdom.” This photograph had the following caption: “King Mac, Queen Nina, Prince Arthur, Princess Doris and emblem of power.” See related image Nos. 376G0105, 376G0106, 376G0153, 376G0154, 376G0155, 376G0157, 376G0158, and 376G0159.

Photograph showing girls performing a maypole dance at Multnomah Field during the Portland Rose Festival on Wednesday, June 13, 1917. The dances followed the coronation of festival Queen Nina Kitts and King Mac Lewis. See related image Nos. 376G0105, 376G0106, 376G0153, 376G0154, 376G0155, 376G0156, 376G0158, and 376G0159. Image note: Photograph shows discoloration due to deterioration of the negative.

Half-length portrait of Jean Grashorn, the 1942 Portland Rose Festival princess from Roosevelt High School, posing with shoe- and boot-shaped collectibles on a small table. She is facing front, smiling, and holding up one of the collectibles, which appears to be a ceramic or china boot. A cropped version of this photograph was published on the front page of the Oregon Journal “News & Views” section on Sunday, May 24, 1942. The page featured photographs of each Rose Festival princess and a brief story headlined “Princesses Off Duty.” This photograph had the following caption: “BAREFOOT KID? NAY, NAY! Jean Naomi Grashorn, Roosevelt high school’s ideal of Rose Festival royalty, started collecting miniature china and glass shoes about a year ago and the collection just kept on growing. Here’s Jean with a few of her shoes.” See related image Nos. 375A0282, 375A0283, 375A0284, 375A0285, 375A0286, 375A0287, 375A0288, and 375A0292, which were published on the same page. Image note: The unconfirmed date “5/19/42” is written on the negative sleeve.

Full-length portrait of Madelyn Devaney, the 1942 Portland Rose Festival princess from Jefferson High School. She is holding the handlebars of a bicycle and is standing outside the door to a brick building. She is smiling and facing slightly left. A cropped version of this photograph was published on the front page of the Oregon Journal “News & Views” section on Sunday, May 24, 1942. The page featured photographs of each Rose Festival princess and a brief story headlined “Princesses Off Duty.” This photograph had the following caption: “CIRCLES TO CYCLE—From the mad whirl of getting ready for the Rose Festival, Princess Mary Madelyn Devaney, Jefferson high school, turns briefly to her favorite sport, bicycling—just for relaxation.” See related image Nos. 375A0281, 375A0282, 375A0283, 375A0285, 375A0286, 375A0287, 375A0288, and 375A0292, which were published on the same page. Image note: The unconfirmed date “5/19/42” is written on the negative sleeve.

Three-quarters portrait of Margaret Ann Tate, the 1942 Portland Rose Festival princess from Commerce High School. She is sitting on a couch, facing front, and smiling. She is holding an open book. A cropped version of this photograph was published on the front page of the Oregon Journal “News & Views” section on Sunday, May 24, 1942. The page featured photographs of each Rose Festival princess and a brief story headlined “Princesses Off Duty.” This photograph had the following caption: “INDOOR GIRL is Princess Margaret Ann Tate, High School of Commerce, who admits that she’d rather ‘curl up with a good book’ than anything else—except sing.” See related image Nos. 375A0281, 375A0282, 375A0283, 375A0284, 375A0286, 375A0287, 375A0288, and 375A0292, which were published on the same page. Image note: The unconfirmed date “5/19/42” is written on the negative sleeve.

Photograph showing 1942 Portland Rose Festival Queen Shirley Fowler standing arm in arm with an unidentified man on a dirt path under a trellis covered with roses. She is wearing her tiara and holding a scepter. Visible behind Fowler and the unidentified man are some of the Rose Festival princesses. At left is Janet Newman, and behind her is Leona Kunce. The photograph may have been taken on June 12, 1942, when the festival court visited the Lambert Gardens in Portland. The Oregon Journal published a story about the court’s visit to the gardens on Saturday, June 13, 1942. The number 3 is written on the negative and is faintly visible in the lower left corner of the image.

Head and shoulders portrait of Margaret Grasle, the 1942 Portland Rose Festival princess from Lincoln High School. She is facing right and looking to the left. She is wearing a corsage and a short-sleeved blouse or dress. The text “Rose Festival / Princess / Margaret Grasle / 5/19/42 / Lincoln HS” is written on the negative sleeve. The month and day written on the sleeve are unconfirmed. See related image Nos. 375A0294, 375A0295, and 375A0296.

Head and shoulders portrait of Margaret Grasle, the 1942 Portland Rose Festival princess from Lincoln High School. She is facing front and is wearing a corsage and a short-sleeved blouse or dress. The text “Rose Festival / Princess / Margaret Grasle / 5/19/42 / Lincoln HS” is written on the negative sleeve. The month and day written on the sleeve are unconfirmed. See related image Nos. 375A0293, 375A0295, and 375A0296.

Head and shoulders portrait of Margaret Grasle, the 1942 Portland Rose Festival princess from Lincoln High School. She is facing right, looking toward the front, and smiling. She is wearing a corsage and a short-sleeved blouse or dress. The text “Rose Festival / Princess / Margaret Grasle / 5/19/42 / Lincoln HS” is written on the negative sleeve. The month and day written on the sleeve are unconfirmed. See related image Nos. 375A0293, 375A0294, and 375A0295.

Head and shoulders portrait of Janet Newman, the 1942 Portland Rose Festival princess from Washington High School. She is facing right and is looking upward and to the left. The number 3 is written on the negative and is visible in the lower left corner of the image. See related image Nos. 375A0297 and 375A0298. The text “Rose Festival princess 1942 / Janet Newman / Washington HS” is written on the negative sleeve.

Head and shoulders portrait of Janis Korlann, the 1942 Portland Rose Festival princess from Grant High School. She is facing slightly right and is looking toward the front. She is wearing a blouse or dress and a corsage. The text “Rose Festival / Princess / Janis Karlann [sic] / Grant HS” is written on the negative sleeve. See related image Nos. 375A0300 and 375A0301.

Head and shoulders portrait of Madelyn Devaney, the 1942 Portland Rose Festival princess from Jefferson High School. She is facing left and smiling. She is wearing a dress, necklace, and corsage. The text “Rose Festival princess 1942 / Madelyn Denady [sic] / Jefferson HS” is written on the negative sleeve. See related image Nos. 375A0312 and 375A0313.

Head and shoulders portrait of Shirley Louise Fowler, the 1942 Portland Rose Festival princess from Franklin High School. Fowler was later selected as that year’s Rose Festival queen. She is facing front, smiling, and wearing a dress and corsage. The text “Shirley Louise Fowler – 42 / Franklin” is written on the negative and is visible at the top of the image. The text “Rose Festival princess 1942 / Shirley Louise Fowler / Franklin HS” is written on the negative sleeve. See related image No. 375A0315.

Head and shoulders portrait of Shirley Louise Fowler, the 1942 Portland Rose Festival princess from Franklin High School. Fowler was later selected as that year’s Rose Festival queen. She is facing front, smiling, and looking upward and to the left. She is wearing a dress and corsage. The text “Shirley Louise Fowler / 42 Franklin” is written on the negative and is visible at the top of the image. The text “Rose Festival princess 1942 / Shirley Louise Fowler / Franklin HS” is written on the negative sleeve. See related image No. 375A0316.

Photograph showing the 1944 Portland Rose Festival queen, Jo Anne Bush (center) surrounded by her court at the selection ceremony on May 27, 1944. The ceremony was held at the Portland Public Auditorium (now the Keller Auditorium). A similar photograph, image No. 375A0321, was published on the front page of the Oregon Journal on May 28, 1944. In the front row, from left, are princesses Francesca Haffner, Roosevelt High School; Harriet McGill, Franklin High School; Barbara Lee Patterson, Lincoln High School; and Josephine Schulberg, Girls Polytechnic High School. In the back row, from left, are princesses Rebecca Larkin, Jane Addams High School; Arlene Boehi, Jefferson High School; Erna Gawehn, Washington High School; and Lorraine McCrea, High School of Commerce. See additional related image Nos. 375A0280, 375A0317, and 375A0319.

Half-length portrait of Melba Bavaro, the 1945 Portland Rose Festival princess from Girls Polytechnic High School. She is seated, facing slightly right, and looking toward the left. She is wearing a dress and corsage. The text “Melva [sic] – Poly 45” is written on the negative and is visible at the bottom of the image. The text “Rose Festival / Princess Melva [sic] / Girls Poly HS / 1945” is written on the negative sleeve. See related image Nos. 375A0332, 375A0333, and 375A0334.

Half-length portrait of Adele Rasch, the 1945 Portland Rose Festival princess from Jane Addams High School. She is seated, facing front, and looking to the left. She is smiling and is wearing a dress and corsage. The text “Adele – Jane Ada [sic] 45” is written on the negative and is visible at the bottom of the image. The text “Rose Festival / Princess Adela [sic] / Jane Adams HS / 1945” is written on the negative sleeve. See related image Nos. 375A0338 and 375A0340.

Half-length portrait of Joan Williams, the 1945 Portland Rose Festival princess from Washington High School. She was later selected as the 1945 Rose Festival queen. She is seated, facing to the left, and smiling. She is wearing a jacket or dress and a corsage. The text “Joan – Wash – 45” is written on the negative and is visible at the bottom of the image. The text “Rose Festival / Princess Joan / Washington HS / 1945” is written on the negative sleeve. See related image Nos. 375A0342, 375A0343, and 375A0344.

Photograph showing Frances Kanzler, the 1932 Portland Rose Festival queen, sitting on her throne at Laurelhurst Park after being crowned at her coronation on June 16, 1932. She is smiling and holding a bouquet of roses. The text “Rose Festival queen / Frances Kanzler” is written on the negative sleeve.

Three-quarters portrait of actress Blanche Sweet, seated on a bench in the garden at the Riverwood home of Ella Tenney Jackson, wife of Oregon Journal publisher Philip L. Jackson. Sweet is facing front, resting one elbow on the back of the bench, and wearing a hat and dress. The photograph was taken in August 1932, when Sweet stayed with the Jacksons while she was in Portland to perform in “Sweet and Lovely” at the Paramount Theatre. A different photograph of Sweet and a story about her visit, headlined “Favorite of Past Plans New Films,” were published on Page 19 of the Oregon Journal on August 17, 1932. See related image No. 371N6089. Image note: The text “Blanche Sweet” is written on the negative.

Photograph showing eight women facing an unidentified man. The women are in two rows; the people in the front row are sitting in chairs and the people in the back row are standing behind them. Between the women and the man is a microphone draped with a small banner that reads “KGW / 620.” The number 5667 is written on the negative and is faintly visible in the upper left corner of the image. The unverified note “Two Cities broadcast / KGW” is written on the negative sleeve. The women may be contestants on the “Quiz of Two Cities” program, in which participants in Portland competed against contestants in Seattle. The program aired on KGW radio in Portland and on KOMO radio in Seattle from approximately 1941 to 1947. See related image Nos. 375A0766, 375A0768, 375A0769, and 375A0770.

Photograph showing an unidentified man and woman standing on either side of a microphone and facing one another. The man appears to be reading from a sheaf of papers he is holding. In the background are a piano and several unidentified people, who are watching the two at the microphone. The number 5669 is written on the negative and is visible in the upper left corner of the image. The unverified note “Two Cities broadcast / KGW” is written on the negative sleeve. The woman may be a contestant on the “Quiz of Two Cities” program, in which participants in Portland competed against contestants in Seattle. The program aired on KGW radio in Portland and on KOMO radio in Seattle from approximately 1941 to 1947. See related image Nos. 375A0766, 375A0767, 375A0768, and 375A0770.

Photograph showing new Portland Mayor Joseph K. Carson pinning the police chief’s badge on Burton K. Lawson’s lapel as an unidentified man watches. The photograph was taken in the city council chambers on Saturday, July 1, 1933, when Carson and Lawson were sworn in. A cropped version of this photograph was one of two that were published on the front page of the Oregon Journal on July 1, 1933, under the headline “Joseph K. Carson Jr. Becomes Mayor.” The photograph had the following caption: “Carson pins chief’s star on on Lawson.” See related image Nos. 371N0453, 371N0459, 371N0467, and 371N0469.

Photograph showing Portland Mayor Joseph K. Carson signing a document in the city council chambers at his swearing-in ceremony on Saturday, July 1, 1933. A cropped version of this photograph was published on the front page of the Oregon Journal on Sunday, July 2, 1933, under the headline “Signing on the Dotted Line.” The photograph had the following caption: “Thereby completing the official routine of becoming mayor of Portland. Thus Mayor Carson took full grip of the reins and began his four-year term Saturday as mayor of the City of Roses, succeeding George L. Baker. An assemblage that overflowed the council chambers witnessed the ceremony midst [sic] a profusion of flowers.” The photograph accompanied two stories about the new mayor and the inauguration events, headlined “Mayor Carson Pledges Economy” and “Mayor Busy Opening Day.” See related image Nos. 371N0452, 371N0453, 371N0459, and 371N0467.

Photograph of Portland Mayor-elect Joseph K. Carson kissing his sister, Alice Carson, on the ocean liner General Sherman on Friday, March 17, 1933, after his return to Portland from a trip to Asia aboard the steamship. The trip included stops in Japan, China, and the Philippines. A cropped version of this photograph and image No. 371N0482 were published on the front page of the Oregon Journal on Saturday, March 18, 1933, under the headline “Hizzoner-Elect Returns in Glory.” This photograph had the following caption: “Not a Mayor Baker act, for it’s his sister Alice who is welcoming him.” The photographs accompanied a story headlined “Carson Home; Gets Welcome Upon Arrival.” Also see additional related image Nos. 371N0455 and 371N0481.

Photograph Portland Mayor Joseph K. Carson (second from right) with four unidentified men in the mayor’s office at Portland City Hall. The two men on either side of Carson are wearing German military uniforms and may be naval officers.

Photograph of Portland Mayor Joseph K. Carson (right) and an unidentified man in the mayor’s office at Portland City Hall. Carson (right) is holding a booklet and looking toward the other man, who may be the commander of Rose City Post No. 35 of the American Legion. He is wearing a garrison cap with the word “commander” on the side and the number 35 on the front.