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Patriotic parade floats during the 1940 Portland Rose Festival

The city of Portland holds the annual Portland Rose Festival with a patriotic flair in June 1940. Two United States flags are hanging from a building. The parade route is marked by banners that read "For You A Rose In Portland Grows." Parade floats made of roses in the 1940 Grand Floral Parade. Portland Rose Festival girls on a “Constitution” float wave at crowds as their float round the corner in front of the New Heathman Hotel (now the Heathman Hotel) at 712 SW Salmon Street. Two men dressed as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln sit on the “Portland Dist. No. 2 Mantle Club” "America First" float, which features an Eagle on its front. Portland Rose Festival “queens” and “princesses” on a “Peacock” themed float wave at crowds. Boy scouts flank the “Peacock” float as passes the Alisky Building and the Harry Semler Dentist and Optical offices. A “Treasure Island Exposition 1940” float. Women and a man on the “Portland Realtors” float, traveling down SW Morrison St. The Portland Hotel is seen in the background at the corner of SW 6th Ave. and SW Morrison St. A “Pasadena” float with an effigy of the bald eagle and the United States flag made of roses is flanked by marching boy scouts.

Date: 1940, June 12
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079264
View of famous landmarks in New York City, United States, in early 1940s.

A map of United States of America. Greyhound passenger bus pasing through toll booth on highway between Boston and New York. Tourist bus arrives in New York, USA. View of tourists inside the bus. Buildings in New York City. View of the Statue of Liberty from a boat. Heavy traffic outside the New York Public Library. Tourist couples travels on busy streets sitting in open top level of a double decker bus. View of the Empire State building and Will's building. Tourist couple enjoys view of the city from rooftop of Empire State Building. A telescope on the rooftop. Wide, sweeping, elevated views of skyscrapers and buildings of Manhattan, New York City, as seen from atop the Empire State Building in the early 1940s.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675050316
Showing coastline at Monterey Bay.

Shows California coastline at Monterey Bay. View of Pacific Ocean waves hitting the cliffs and rocks on the coast of California.

Date: 1940, April
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039409
The film 'Meet The Fleet' shows Potter, Benson and Dan arriving as new recruits at the Naval Training Center in San Diego.

The film 'Meet The Fleet' shows young recruits at the Naval Training Center in San Diego, California. Opening scenes show the U.S. battleship USS Pennsylvania (BB-38). A Marine bugler, in dress blues,blows a call. He is followed by a Navy bosun's Mate who pipes the call, for all hands on deck. Sailors run to assemble on deck and stand inspection by ship's officers. Scene then shifts to the flag pole at the Naval Training Station for recruits, at San Diego, California, where the American flag is being raised. Recruits in white uniform stand saluting in the background. New young recruits arrive in a military truck. They get down from the vehicle with their baggage. A dramatization shows recruits looking around. They follow an officer. Potter from Kansas, wealthy Benson (actor George Reeves), and poor Dan introduce each other.

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064963
President Franklin D Roosevelt addresses crowd in Philadelphia during 1940 presidential campaign.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the Philadelphia Convention Hall and Civic Center (3517 Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The President speaks from the podium and gives a political speech responding to what he characterizes as deliberate falsehoods promulgated by the political opposition.

Date: 1940, October 23
Duration: 8 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046215
View of the French Quarter and the Napoleon House in New Orleans, Louisiana in the early 1940s.

View of the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Tourists view equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson in Jackson Square. View of streets of downtown New Orleans French Quarter. Exteriors of the Napoleon House. Cars, trucks, and pedestrian traffic on streets. At Mississippi River port in New Orleans, view of a passenger steamship or paddle wheel steamer arriving at dock. View of steamship underway on the Mississippi River.

Date: 1942
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675050321