Student dressed up in a homemade bonnet and dress with barbershop motifs

Identifier

FHFG_G90_183

Title

Student dressed up in a homemade bonnet and dress with barbershop motifs

Description

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.

This is one photograph from a collection on the Gay Nineties festival and the the Original All-Northwest Barbershop Ballad Contest in Forest Grove, Oregon. The festival centered around a theme of nostalgia for the 1890s decade. The event, which ran from 1947 through the 1990s, featured a parade downtown, residents dressing up in 1890s-themed costumes for the celebrations, local businesses decorating their window displays, and the crown jewel of the event, the Original All-Northwest Barbershop Ballad Contest, which earned Forest Grove the nickname "Ballad Town U.S.A."

Creator

De Lay, Allan J.

Date: Year(s)

1955/1961

Date: Display

1955-1961

Subject

Forest Grove (Or.)

Nostalgia--United States--19th century

Nostalgia--United States--History--20th century

Barbershop quartets

Barbershop singing

Parades

Festivals

Place

Forest Grove, Oregon

Source

Friends of Historic Forest Grove

Copyright

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