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Book/Printed Material Beadle's dime ball-room companion and guide to dancing. Comprising rules of etiquette, hints on private parties, toilettes for the ball-room, etc. Also, a synopsis of round and square dances, dictionary of French terms, etc Ball-room companion / Dime ball-room companion / Dime ball-room companion and guide to dancing

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Title

  • Beadle's dime ball-room companion and guide to dancing. Comprising rules of etiquette, hints on private parties, toilettes for the ball-room, etc. Also, a synopsis of round and square dances, dictionary of French terms, etc

Other Title

  • Ball-room companion
  • Dime ball-room companion
  • Dime ball-room companion and guide to dancing

Summary

  • This manual is typical of books that were assembled by publishers to be disseminated to a broad mass market. It is a compilation of many treatises covering etiquette, dress, and demeanor, and describes the popular ballroom dances of the era--quadrille, waltz, schottisch, and polka.

Created / Published

  • New York, Beadle and Co. [c1868]

Headings

  • -  Ballroom dancing--Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • -  Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals

Notes

  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text.
  • -  LAC tnb 2019-07-03 no edits (1 card)

Medium

  • 32 p. diagr. 16 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1751 .B36

Library of Congress Control Number

  • ca05001967

Online Format

  • image

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Video Performers

Performers for the October 1997 Great Hall event: Dancers

Members of The Jonquil Street Foundation, Inc. Ariane Anthony, Thomas Baird, Barbara Barr, Patricia Beaman, Christopher Caines, Charles Garth, James Martin, Maris Wolff. Musicians - members of The Library of Congress Centennial Cotillion Brass Band, Emerson Head and Robert Sheldon, Leaders (Members, Metro Washington D.C. Federation of Musicians Local 161-710, AFM.)

Performers for the Coolidge Auditorium clips: Dancers

Cheryl Stafford and Thomas Baird. Musicians - Boris Gurevitch (piano), Susan Manus (violin).

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Chicago citation style:

Beadle's dime ball-room companion and guide to dancing. Comprising rules of etiquette, hints on private parties, toilettes for the ball-room, etc. Also, a synopsis of round and square dances, dictionary of French terms, etc. [New York, Beadle and Co, 1868] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/ca05001967/.

APA citation style:

(1868) Beadle's dime ball-room companion and guide to dancing. Comprising rules of etiquette, hints on private parties, toilettes for the ball-room, etc. Also, a synopsis of round and square dances, dictionary of French terms, etc. [New York, Beadle and Co] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/ca05001967/.

MLA citation style:

Beadle's dime ball-room companion and guide to dancing. Comprising rules of etiquette, hints on private parties, toilettes for the ball-room, etc. Also, a synopsis of round and square dances, dictionary of French terms, etc. [New York, Beadle and Co, 1868] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/ca05001967/>.