American dancing master, and ball-room prompter: containing about five hundred dances including all

Unknown artist

Dance:: General Dance
Era:: Late 1800s (Victorian Ballroom)
Source:: loc
Rights:: Public domain — free to use, share and adapt.
Recorded as:: public_domain

American dancing master, and ball-room prompter: containing about five hundred dances including all is an artwork in the LODance gallery of dance in art. It's one of thousands of historic images tracing how dancing has been seen and celebrated across the centuries.

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