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| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Dancers in elaborate costumes and huge headdresses perform onstage in "Glorifying the American Girl," a 1929 Paramount musical. The heads of some pit music... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of the dancer Irene Castle in an American Indian costume with many feathers. It is autographed "Sincerely Yours, Irene Castle." |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Full-length publicity portrait of Irene Castle in a tripping pose for Irving Berlin's 1914 Broadway musical Watch Your Step. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Irene Castle holding one of her small Belgian Griffon dogs. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in a complicated satin and tulle costume in her role as the cabaret dancer Palma May in the silent film "French Heels" (Holtre 1922). |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in pajamas and sleeping cap enjoying a cantaloupe as part of a posed breakfast in bed with her pet monkey Rastus. This photograph was used to ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in a gauzy tulle and satin dress in a full-length pose in a publicity photograph for the silent film "Patria" (International 1917). |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in a gauzy tulle and satin dress poses full-length in an air-brushed publicity photograph. The caption printed on the back of the print reads:... |
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| Description: | A belly dancer performing outdoors on the set of the TV show "Klondike." She has her arms raised above her head holding a large scarf. There is a log cabin... |
| Date: | 02 1988 |
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| Description: | Five students in costume are dancing while several adults are looking on. Caption reads: "SHALL WE DANCE? Children practiced an Asian dance before performi... |
| Date: | 06 01 1989 |
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| Description: | A costumed couple is dancing while four women in costumes are clapping their hands. Caption reads: "Dancers strutted their stuff at an '1865 Military Ball'... |
| Date: | 05 22 1989 |
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| Description: | Five dancers in vertical-striped overalls performing in front of an audience indoors. Caption reads: "Members of the Unique dance group perform at the Linc... |
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| Description: | Marion Davies standing between Paal and Leif Rock, also known at the Rocky Twins, in a still from the film "Blondie of the Follies." The three are dressed ... |
| Date: | 09 17 1989 |
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| Description: | A young man and woman are dancing together on a stage. Other dancers and people are sitting at tables in the background. Caption reads: "The La Casa Senior... |
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| Description: | Dancers taking a curtain call on stage in a scene from the 1929 film "Alibi." The orchestra is in a pit in front of the stage, and two men and two women ar... |
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| Description: | Chorus girls standing on stage in a scene from the 1929 film "Alibi." Each dancer is standing on one leg with the other leg bent at the knee. The orchestra... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 04 12 1979 |
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| Description: | Several people in dresses are standing and holding up their skirts while dancing. Caption reads: "A dance group, the Los Bailarimos Folkloricos de Waukesh... |
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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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