[A delightful archive of 29 pieces of sheet music related to the Portland Rose Carnival and the Portland Rose Festival from the Victorian through the Mid-20th-Century, encompassing marches, waltzes, piano music, and more all dedicated to the wonders of roses in Portland, Oregon in June.]

[Portland, OR, New York, Chicago, IL, San Francisco, CA: Pfunder Pharmaceutical Chemist, Mar-Lew, Wheeler, Trench, Ellers Music House, Bushong & Co., et al, 1894-1969]. Twenty nine parts. 15 Folio, 13 4to., 1 8vo. [Approx. 150 pp (all unpaginated, some 4, others 6 pp.).], all w/ self-printed illustrated, or colour-illustrated softcovers, 3 w/ interior photo illustrations of Rose Court, or Portland environs (some w/ dustsoiling, a few w/ minor closed tears, edgewear, minor creasing on a couple), still a grouping in VG condition overall, from the library of former Portland Rose Festival enthusiast, Lois Jane Barlow Lassell (1925-2017), who had worked as a “Rosie the Riveter” aircraft riveter, as well as welder in the Kaiser shipyards during World War II, and later worked as a Portland Police stenographer following the War. This archive of sheet music reveals the musical tastes, and cultural interests of Portland Rose Festival aficionados beginning with a Waltz by Harry Miller & George Jameson, Roses Fair are Dreaming issued in 1894 by William Pfunder, Pharmaceutical Chemist for the 1894 Rose show up to Everett Heacock’s zippy Portland and Roses in 1969. Four of the pre-World War I items were printed by the enterprising Portland printer, Bushong & Co., and the vast majority were all printed in Portland for the Portland market. Over half of them have no institutional holdings recorded, or actual physical copies, such as Marshall’s “Portland you’re a dear old town: roses fragrant” for the 1911 Rose Festival; Prsley’s 1912 Rose Festival March, or Lynette Henderson’s The Whole World knows the Portland Rose in 1915. Daniel Wilson dedicated his Rose in Portland Grows to the Royal Rosarians who oversaw the Rose festival, and even the Jazz Age reached Portland with Thurber & Lacey’s Rosetime Foxtrot, first performed by the “Novelty Syncopating Hawaiian Trio” pictured on the front cover, and distributed by Roseway Dairy. Adelaide Dorothy Graham’s 1922 Beautiful Home of the Rose features a number of scenic photos in and round Portland, OR. A detailed list is available upon request.