Historical SourcePublic Domain
Cotillions Manuscript (American manuscript cotillion notebook, c.1807; Richard Powers Collection)
Publisher: Anonymous American manuscript ms. cotillion notebook, c.1807; Richard Powers private collection. Source files: DATA/POWERS/1807_Cotillions_ms.PDF and DATA/POWERS/ABBYY OCR/1807_Cotillions_ms.pdf and DATA/POWERS/ABBYY TXT/1807_Cotillions_ms.txt (10-line OCR — handwritten ms is non-OCR-recoverable; the title-page and one-or-two pen-decorations are the only legible content). HISTORIC POSITION: a post-Federal-period American (c.1807) hand-written cotillion-figure notebook, contemporaneous with 1801-Saltator (LOC-1801-SALTATOR), 1796-Fraizer (LOC-1796-FRAIZER), 1798-Companion (LOC-1798-COMPANION/LOC-1798-GENTLEMAN), and bracket year for 1815-Paines-4th, 1817-Gourdoux, etc. Confirms the persistence of personal-MS cotillion repertoires alongside the print-published cotillion compilations of the early American Republic. Has_Step_Detail = No: Powers ABBYY OCR is non-recoverable for the handwritten body. Corpus-completeness syllabus row only — no canonicals or appearances minted in this pass.Year: 1807Family: cotillionsCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Anonymous American manuscript ms. cotillion notebook, c.1807; Richard Powers private collection. Source files: DATA/POWERS/1807_Cotillions_ms.PDF and DATA/POWERS/ABBYY OCR/1807_Cotillions_ms.pdf and DATA/POWERS/ABBYY TXT/1807_Cotillions_ms.txt (10-line OCR — handwritten ms is non-OCR-recoverable; the title-page and one-or-two pen-decorations are the only legible content). HISTORIC POSITION: a post-Federal-period American (c.1807) hand-written cotillion-figure notebook, contemporaneous with 1801-Saltator (LOC-1801-SALTATOR), 1796-Fraizer (LOC-1796-FRAIZER), 1798-Companion (LOC-1798-COMPANION/LOC-1798-GENTLEMAN), and bracket year for 1815-Paines-4th, 1817-Gourdoux, etc. Confirms the persistence of personal-MS cotillion repertoires alongside the print-published cotillion compilations of the early American Republic. Has_Step_Detail = No: Powers ABBYY OCR is non-recoverable for the handwritten body. Corpus-completeness syllabus row only — no canonicals or appearances minted in this pass. (1807). Imported from local collection.