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| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | George Walker, Adah Overton Walker, and Bert Williams link arms and dance the cakewalk in the first Broadway musical to be written and performed by African... |
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| Description: | Youth dancing at the Highlander Folk School as part of the Summer Youth Project program. Wendy Davis is in the lower left. |
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| Description: | Two men in a lumber camp bunkhouse. The man on the right is sitting on a stump playing a fiddle, while the man on the left is dancing. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Captain Vernon Castle of the British Royal Flying Corps standing in uniform beside a Curtis Jenny with British markings. Castle flew over 150 missions at t... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Publicity portrait of the dancer Irene Castle wearing the lace Dutch cap Vernon bought her in Brussels in 1912. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mae Murray, who just recently completed 'Circe,' as she looked when she appeared on the stage. Miss Murray started her career as a dance... |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Harriet Curran Kelly and her four children in a studio portrait from about 1914. From left to right the children are Eugene, Harriet, Louise, and James. Wi... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Ho-Chunk women perform the Swan Dance. There is a group of men sitting in a circle next to them. |
| Date: | 11 29 1962 |
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| Description: | A man and a woman are dancing, with other people dancing in the background. Caption reads: "Charles Denny showed his delight as he waltzed with a guest, Mr... |
| Date: | 08 04 1965 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of four couples dancing near airplanes, while several other people look on. One person is playing the accordion. Caption reads: "They moved t... |
| Date: | 02 03 1967 |
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| Description: | A woman demonstrating a dance move while a man is watching. Caption reads: "Concentration is required when taking a dance lesson. Miss Maria Diaz, an instr... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Illustrated postcard of a couple dancing on an outside deck with a view of a hill behind them. Caption reads: "Having the Time of My Life in Kohlsville, Wi... |
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| Description: | Harry Lynde Bradley, and his wife Margaret "Peg" Blankney Sullivan Bradley, dancing at a party. |
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| Description: | Professional portrait of Dudley Williams, who was a dancer with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of dancers in a circle during the "Shadow Waltz" number in the film "Gold Diggers of 1933." The dancers are each wearing large hoop skirts an... |
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| Description: | Three dancers pose together with hands clasped. They are Elise du Fore, Frances Wellington, and Gwyneth King Roe. |
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| Description: | Three women in costumes dance in a scene from the 1926 film "Up in Mabel's Room". Each of them wears a white disc shaped hat, dark shorts, frilly cuffs ar... |
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