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Carnets de bal

Collection

Dance Card
Date 1857-1996, predominant 1900-1930
Dimensions12 cm of textual records (194 documents)
Object NumberC288
CollectionMcCord
Scope and Content

This dance card collection is made up of cardboard cards that were handed out to women at social evenings or society events so that they would know the dances and could write down the names of their dance partners. Most of the dance cards have a pencil attached to them by a string. The names of dance partners have been written in most of them, too.

The collection is divided into the following series:

C288/A Cards from the 1800s;
C288/B 1900-1909;
C288/C 1910-1919;
C288/D 1920-1924;
C288/E 1925-1930;
C288/F 1931-1996;
C288/G Unidentified Cards;
C288/H Other Documents.


Status
Not on view

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