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Vernon and Irene Portrayed by Fred and Ginger

Date: 1939
Description: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the motion picture, "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" (RKO, 1939). Although Astaire and Rogers were ideally cast to...
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Leo Kehl and Lucille Stoddart

Date: 1930
Description: Leo Kehl, head of the Kehl School of Dance, dances a slow foxtrot known as the "Flicker" with his partner, Lucille Stoddart.
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Dancers in Training

Date: 
Description: Young children practice ballroom dancing, under the direction of Leo T. Kehl. In addition to the students of the Kehl School of Dance, Kehl also taught boy...
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Kehl Dance Class

Date: 1907
Description: Dance class in the ballroom at the Kehl School of Dance, Madison, Wisconsin. Professor Kehl stands at the lower right, while a row of mothers watch from b...
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Ballroom Dance Scene

Date: 1931
Description: Overhead view of a ballroom dance scene in the film "Congress Dances".
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Irene Castle

Date: 1915
Description: Waist-up studio portrait of Irene Castle.
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Vernon Castle and Irene Castle.

Date: 1913
Description: "The Tango of Today." Vernon and Irene Castle demonstrate a modern hands-free tango. A reproduction of this photograph was used in their 1914 book Moder...
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Vernon Castle and Irene Castle

Date: 1913
Description: Full-length portrait of the celebrated dancing partners Vernon and Irene Castle dancing cheek to cheek. Irene wears a gauzy dress decorated with butterflie...
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Vernon Castle and Irene Castle

Date: 1913
Description: "The Tango of Today." Vernon and Irene Castle demonstrate a modern hands-free tango. A similar photograph was used in their 1914 book Modern Dancing...
Postcard

Tip Top Dance Pavillion

Date: 1945
Description: Photographic postcard of the Tip Top Dance Pavillion on Anderson Lake. The view from the lake shows several automobiles parked outside the pavillion. The s...

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