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| Title | Rose garden with Victorian house in background, Portland, Oregon, ca. 1908 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | ca. 1908 |
| Notes | Caption on image: Portland Roses.
Printed on verso: Here is a home of Portland, Oregon, with its wonderful Rose Garden. By reason of peculiar soil and climate the rose flourishes in this section of the Northwest in a most remarkable manner; M. Rieder, Publ., Los Angeles, Cal. No. 5136
Handwritten on verso: What do you think of our Roses? By the first of June our gardens will one mass of roses - In the picture the pink ones that show up so prominently are the "Caroline Testout." It is a new hardy garden rose and is the official one during the festival - although other varieties are much in evidence...
Postmarked May 1, 1909. |
| Contextual Notes | The Portland Rose Festival began officially in 1907 and it is celebrated in June. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Roses--Oregon--Portland; Houses--Oregon--Portland |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Rose gardens--Oregon--Portland; Architecture, Victorian--Oregon--Portland; Portland (Or.)--Buildings, structures, etc. |
| Location Depicted | United States--Oregon--Portland |
| Digital Collection | Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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| Order Number | AWC2647
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Postcard Collection |
| Object Type | Postcard |
| Physical Description | 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from an original postcard using a ScanMaker 6800 at 100-175 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2007. |
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