The collection of Richard Powers
Primary Sources - Historical Social Dance
Chronological listing

78% of the 2,550 sources in my collection are the original editions. 13% are digital scans. 9% are printed facsimile reproductions.

Where dates of publication are not given, dates are estimated. c. = circa.

Most of these primary sources are dance manuals. Stand-alone descriptions of a single dance are noted with » before the title.

Some of these sources from my collection can be downloaded here.

Dancing master and social dance periodicals like Dancing Times and La Danse are included in this listing. Newspaper articles are not. Also not listed are books about theatrical dance, etiquette books, fiction/satire about dance, country and folk dance, secondary sources, and dance histories. Contact me if you would like a listing of my sources in any of those categories (see the bottom of this page).

Anti-dance books are listed here.

c.	1938	Frolicking Feet	Academy of Dancing	FROLICKING FEET: TEACHING YOU MODERN BALLROOM DANCING	Sydney, Australia
	1938		Am. Dancer Publ. Co.	THE AMERICAN DANCER Jan, Mar, Apr, Jun, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec issues	New York
	1938	Edith	Ballwebber	GROUP INSTRUCTION IN SOCIAL DANCING	New York
c.	1938	Ena	Bartley	RHYTHM DANCING	Birmingham England
	1938	Joe	Bonomo	IMPROVE YOUR DANCING	New York
c.	1938	Carl	Bryant	MODERN BALLROOM DANCING FOR AMATEUR TESTS	London
	1938	Prof. D.	Charles	TOUTES LES DANSES MODERNES, Tome II	Paris
	1938		Chicago Ass'n of Dancing Masters	SILVER ANNIVERSARY PROSPECTUS	Chicago
	1938		Dancing Masters Of America	DESCRIPTION OF THE DANCES – DANCING MASTERS OF AMERICA CONVENTION	New Orleans
c.	1938	D. T.	Foster	THE PALAIS GLIDE Description with sheet music	New York
	1938	Norma	Goldman	HOW TO DANCE THE BIG APPLE	Newark, NJ
	1938	Lawrence	Hostetler	TEACH YOURSELF THE LATEST STEPS	New York
	1938	Lawrence	Hostetler	SOCIAL DANCING SELF-TAUGHT	New York
c.	1938	Henry	Jacques	BALLROOM DANCING, The Theory and Practice of the Revised Technique London	London
	1938	Maurice	Jattefaux	APPRENONS À DANSER	Paris
	1938	Cor	Klinkert	MODERN DANCING	Amsterdam, Holland
	1938	Lucile	Marsh, National Dance League	SUCCESSFUL DANCE PARTIES (Shag & Big Apple)	not mentioned
	1938	Paul R.	Milton, Ed.	DANCE MAGAZINE Feb, July issues	New York
	1938	Arthur	Murray	HOW TO BECOME A GOOD DANCER (autographed)	New York
	1938	Arthur	Murray	ARTHUR MURRAY'S DANCE BOOK	New York
	1938		National Dance League	DANCE DIGEST MAGAZINE Vol. 1 No. 6 Sept. issue	New York
	1938	Thomas E.	Parson	POPULAR BALLROOM DANCES, FOR THE STUDENT OF SOCIAL DANCING, Second Series	New York
	1938	Eleanor	Powell	HOW TO DANCE THE BIG APPLE in Feb. issue of Liberty magazine	New York
	1938	Lillian	Ray	MODERN BALLROOM DANCING With Latest Exhibition Dances	Chicago
	1938	Adela	Roscoe & Cyril Farmer	MODERN BALLROOM DANCE INSTRUCTOR	London

c.	1938	Frolicking Feet	Academy of Dancing	FROLICKING FEET: TEACHING YOU MODERN BALLROOM DANCING	Sydney, Australia
	1938		Am. Dancer Publ. Co.	THE AMERICAN DANCER Jan, Mar, Apr, Jun, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec issues	New York
	1938	Edith	Ballwebber	GROUP INSTRUCTION IN SOCIAL DANCING	New York
c.	1938	Ena	Bartley	RHYTHM DANCING	Birmingham England
	1938	Joe	Bonomo	IMPROVE YOUR DANCING	New York
c.	1938	Carl	Bryant	MODERN BALLROOM DANCING FOR AMATEUR TESTS	London
	1938	Prof. D.	Charles	TOUTES LES DANSES MODERNES, Tome II	Paris
	1938		Chicago Ass'n of Dancing Masters	SILVER ANNIVERSARY PROSPECTUS	Chicago
	1938		Dancing Masters Of America	DESCRIPTION OF THE DANCES – DANCING MASTERS OF AMERICA CONVENTION	New Orleans
c.	1938	D. T.	Foster	THE PALAIS GLIDE Description with sheet music	New York
	1938	Norma	Goldman	HOW TO DANCE THE BIG APPLE	Newark, NJ
	1938	Lawrence	Hostetler	TEACH YOURSELF THE LATEST STEPS	New York
	1938	Lawrence	Hostetler	SOCIAL DANCING SELF-TAUGHT	New York
c.	1938	Henry	Jacques	BALLROOM DANCING, The Theory and Practice of the Revised Technique London	London
	1938	Maurice	Jattefaux	APPRENONS À DANSER	Paris
	1938	Cor	Klinkert	MODERN DANCING	Amsterdam, Holland
	1938	Lucile	Marsh, National Dance League	SUCCESSFUL DANCE PARTIES (Shag & Big Apple)	not mentioned
	1938	Paul R.	Milton, Ed.	DANCE MAGAZINE Feb, July issues	New York
	1938	Arthur	Murray	HOW TO BECOME A GOOD DANCER (autographed)	New York
	1938	Arthur	Murray	ARTHUR MURRAY'S DANCE BOOK	New York
	1938		National Dance League	DANCE DIGEST MAGAZINE Vol. 1 No. 6 Sept. issue	New York
	1938	Thomas E.	Parson	POPULAR BALLROOM DANCES, FOR THE STUDENT OF SOCIAL DANCING, Second Series	New York
	1938	Eleanor	Powell	HOW TO DANCE THE BIG APPLE in Feb. issue of Liberty magazine	New York
	1938	Lillian	Ray	MODERN BALLROOM DANCING With Latest Exhibition Dances	Chicago
	1938	Adela	Roscoe & Cyril Farmer	MODERN BALLROOM DANCE INSTRUCTOR	London

The collection of Richard Powers Primary Sources - Historical Social Dance Chronological listing

The collection of Richard Powers
Primary Sources - Historical Social Dance
Chronological listing