Young people at the Town Club for a dinner, before an Assembly dance at the Waverley Country Club in Portland. Seated from left to right: Robert Healy, Lil Adams, and Jacqueline Miller. Standing from left to right: Philip Miller, Mitchell Drake, and Harriet Bouvy. The women are wearing formal dresses, while the men tuxedos. A similar photograph was published in the Oregon Journal on Wednesday, December 28, 1949 (negative 10 of 19).

People dancing during a class at the Peninsula Park community house, directed by Margo Wright. Several people are holding hands (negative 2 of 2).

Photograph showing people dancing at an anniversary party for Town Club in Portland. Couples are dancing on a raised wooden floor, beyond which tables and seated people can be seen (negative 1 of 16).

Photograph showing party-goers in costume at the Artists Ball at Alderwood Golf Club in Northeast Portland. A woman wearing a sequined top and bottom dances in front of onlookers, some seated on the ground. The floor is littered with paper streamers (negative 18 of 19).

Photograph showing party-goers in costume at the Artists Ball at Alderwood Golf Club in Northeast Portland. A band is playing while people dance, and cartoon posters are on the walls. A couple near the center of the frame face towards the camera (negative 14 of 19).

Photograph showing five unidentified Portland entertainers, slated to perform at a Navy sponsored street dance on S.W. 6th Avenue in Portland. Three women in matching outfits are seated, behind which stand two men in suits, who are each holding one side of magazine (negative 1 of 3).

Dr. Miner Patton, Portland Woodlawn School principal, dances with student Dianna Bennard. They face towards one another, while Patton extends one leg and holds the hand of Bennard. This photograph was published in the Oregon Journal on Sunday, March 12, 1950 (negative 1 of 7).

Woodlawn students practicing New England style longways dances. A student wearing a long dress stands at the left side of the frame, watching couples of 7th and 8th grade students dance together. The group appears to be in a school gym. A photograph from this series was published in the Oregon Journal on Sunday, March 12, 1950 (negative 4 of 7).

Session 1. Hawes discusses his involvement (since the mid-1980s) with the Rosetown Ramblers, a Portland chapter of the Gay & Lesbian Square Dancing Association.

Transcript. Philips discusses his involvement (since the 1980s) with the Rosetown Ramblers, a gay & lesbian square dancing club and with the leather & S/M community.

Transcript. Hawes discusses his involvement (since the mid-1980s) with the Rosetown Ramblers, a Portland chapter of the Gay & Lesbian Square Dancing Association.

Session 1. Philips discusses his involvement (since the 1980s) with the Rosetown Ramblers, a gay & lesbian square dancing club and with the leather & S/M community.

People from the Portland “O-NO” Club demonstrate folk dancing at the Meyer & Frank department store, as part of the City of Portland, Bureau of Parks Recreation Week. A group pf people can be seen dancing in a circle with clasped hands while other watch (negative 1 of 4).

Two young women at the Town Club for a dinner, before an Assembly dance at the Waverley Country Club in Portland. Both are smoking cigarettes and wearing long chiffon dresses. Photographs from this series were published in the Oregon Journal on Wednesday, December 28, 1949 (negative 2 of 19).

People from the Portland “O-NO” Club demonstrate folk dancing at the Meyer & Frank department store, as part of the City of Portland, Bureau of Parks Recreation Week. Several couples can be seen dancing in a circle (negative 2 of 4).

People from the Portland “O-NO” Club demonstrate folk dancing at the Meyer & Frank department store, as part of the City of Portland, Bureau of Parks Recreation Week. Several couples can be seen dancing in a circle, below a banner that reads “Recreation Week, April 12-17” (negative 4 of 4).