The American ballroom companion : dance instruction manuals, ca. 1600-1920 / Music Division, Library of Congress.
Imprint
[Washington, D.C.] : [Library of Congress], [1998-]
Item Status
System Details
System requirements: World Wide Web (WWW) browser software.
Mode of access: Internet.
Note
Title from title screen dated Mar. 23, 1998.
Summary
Presents over two hundred social dance manuals, pocket-sized books with diagrams used by itinerant dancing masters to teach the American gentry the latest dance steps. Includes anti-dance manuals as well as treatises on etiquette. Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.
