print email comment close American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920 URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/ Description: A collection of "materials relating to ballroom (also called social) dance," including over two hundred social dance manuals. Features antidance manuals, histories, treatises on etiquette, a bibliography, and the essay "How to Read a Dance Manual." Searchable and browsable. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. Extra Keywords Renaissance Baroque Middle Ages ragtime Library of Congress Subject Headings: Ballroom dancing Ballroom dancing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. Dance -- History LII Database Information: Record 4279 created by Anat Graw on 10/10/1999 Last modification on 07/06/2004 Published: 10/10/1999   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/4279