Students from the Portland Art Museum School, dressed in costume for a party. Ray Chilstrom is standing on a table, wearing a wooden painting frame and mask, while another smiles at the right side of the frame. A cropped version of this photograph was published in the Oregon Journal on Sunday, February 18, 1951 (negative 2 of 12).

Students from the Portland Art Museum School, dressed in costume for a party. A man on the right is dressed as a magician, holding a wand towards the other, wearing a flannel shirt and hat with an affixed horn. Photographs from this series were published in the Oregon Journal on Sunday, February 18, 1951 (negative 3 of 12).

Parade floats at Multnomah Stadium during the 1952 Portland Rose Festival. A child, wearing a clown costume, waves from the top of a float (negative 20 of 38).

Three women, dressed as clowns, at a masquerade party for women welders in Portland. The women are wearing painted face masks and standing arm-in-arm (negative 1 of 13).

A woman, dressed in a costume with sequins, at a masquerade party for women welders, likely in Portland (negative 2 of 13).

A couple dances at a masquerade party for women welders, likely in Portland. They’re dressed as pirates, and other dancing people can be seen in the background (negative 5 of 13).

A kangaroo court at Kaiser’s Swan Island shipyard. Fake beards are being put on two men, who are standing behind a wooden desk and holding hammers. Kangaroo courts took place to “prosecute” employees who didn’t comply with beard and whisker growing contests, with the fees collected later donated to various causes (negative 1 of 3).