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Illustration of Dancers
Couples are dancing and a man smoking a pipe is sitting in a chair watching. A band plays music on a bandstand in the background.
Nakoma School Folk Dancing Group
January 31, 1935
Nakoma School girls folk dance class, five "couples" dressed in ethnic costumes dancing with hands interlocked. Circle Dance.
Tap Dancers
October 28, 1938
Five couples in folk costumes wearing tap dance shoes.
Nakoma School Folk Dancing Group
January 31, 1935
Nakoma School girls folk dance class. There are six "couples" in a row in ethnic costumes, with each "boy" on their knee holding a girl's hand.
Eddie Cantor on Stage at Centurama
August 3, 1946
View of Eddie Cantor on stage standing in front of a microphone. There is a band below him on the left, and people are sitting in chairs on the stage behind him.
Dancers Forming a Circle
Dancers form a circle while two seated men play a guitar and a mandolin.