A black and white photograph featuring a Gay Nineties-themed dance for students in the Central School gymnasium in 1961. The photographer is unknown, but it may have been Allan J. de Lay, a staff photographer for The Oregonian who took numerous photographs of the event over the years.
A black and white photograph featuring Ruth King (later named Ruth Draper) winning the Gay Nineties Forest Grove High School dress-up contest in 1953. The photographer is unknown, but it may have been Allan J. de Lay, a staff photographer for The Oregonian who took numerous photographs of the event over the years.
A black and white photograph by Allan J. de Lay featuring junior high school students dancing in the school gymnasium during a Gay Nineties event in 1961. Forest Grove resident Becky Storey Crumb is believed to be pictured.
A black and white photograph featuring a Gay Nineties-themed school assembly at the old Forest Grove High School on Elm Street in 1952. The photographer is unknown, but it may have been Allan J. de Lay, a staff photographer for The Oregonian who took numerous photographs of the event over the years.
In this staged photograph by Allan J. de Lay, a student is portrayed as receiving corporal punishment at the hands of his teacher during a Gay Nineties event at school in 1961.
A photograph by Allan J. de Lay featuring the KPTV Portland television station visiting a Forest Grove elementary school during the Gay Nineties festival and All-Northwest Barbershop Ballad Contest in 1961.
A photograph featuring two students dressed up for a Gay Nineties-themed dress up event at Forest Grove High School in 1953. The photographer is unknown, but it may have been Allan J. de Lay, a staff photographer for The Oregonian who took numerous photographs of the event over the years.
A photograph featuring Forest Grove high school students Chuck Olson, Gail Hering, and Snowden Gayton dressed up for the Gay Nineties festival in 1952. The photographer is unknown, but it may have been Allan J. de Lay, a staff photographer for The Oregonian who took numerous photographs of the event over the years.
A 1958 photograph taken of student Tom Spreng at a Forest Grove elementary school during the Gay Nineties festival. "Allan J. De Lay staff photographer The Oregonian" is stamped on the back of the print, so it is likely that this photograph was taken for the newspaper.
A photograph by Allan J. de Lay featuring a student dressed up wearing a homemade bonnet and dress with barbershop motifs on the occasion of the Gay Nineties festival. The student holds the 1931 edition of the book Tick-Tock Tales for Children by Watty Piper.
A photograph from featuring the Four Flats barbershop group from Newberg, OR, performing at the All-Northwest Barbershop Ballad Contest. The group won first place in the contest in 1947 and 1948. The photographer is unknown, but it may have been Allan J. de Lay, a staff photographer for The Oregonian who took numerous photographs of the event over the years.
A photograph by Allan J. de Lay featuring the Guardsmen barbershop group from Vancouver, WA, performing at the All-Northwest Barbershop Ballad Contest in 1987.
A photograph by Allan J. de Lay featuring the Nomads barbershop group from Salem, Oregon performing at the All-Northwest Barbershop Ballad Contest in 1987.
A black and white photograph featuring the Gay Nineties festival's Best Dressed Contest winners of 1948. The photographer is unknown, but it may have been Allan J. de Lay, a staff photographer for The Oregonian who took numerous photographs of the event over the years.
A black and white photograph featuring an unnamed quartet with satirical moustaches performing at the Forest Grove Barbershop Ballad Contest. The photograph was taken at the old Elm St. high school auditorium, which signifies that it was taken sometime between 1947 and 1953. Further, while the photographer is unknown, but it may have been Allan J. de Lay, a staff photographer for The Oregonian who took numerous photographs of the event over the years.
