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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).
c. | 1950 | Syd | Black | SYD BLACK'S OLDE TYME INSTRUCTIONS. Dances Simply Explained | Chapel-En-Le-Frith, England |
c. | 1950 | James | Burleigh | OLD TYME DANCES | London |
c. | 1950 | Murray | Dale | EASY-TO-LEARN DANCING | London |
1950 | John R. | Gillespie | OLD TIME DANCING Revised ed. ©1947 | London | |
1950 | Michael | Gwynne | OLD TIME AND SEQUENCE DANCING | London | |
1950 | Laure | Haile | SWING (Descriptions of many kinds of swing steps) | Tucson, AZ | |
c. | 1950 | Albert | Johnston | OLD TYME BALLROOM DANCES | London |
1950 | A. J. | Latimer | A SECOND BOUQUET OF OLD TIME DANCES | London | |
1950 | Official Board of Ballroom Dancing | OLD TIME AND SEQUENCE DANCES ©1947, revised 1950 | London | ||
1950 | Ginger | Osgood | DANCIN' A ROUND (round dances in square dancing) | Los Angeles, CA | |
1950 | P.J.S. | Richardson, Ed. | THE DANCING TIMES magazine (Mar, Jun, Jul, Nov, Dec) | London | |
1950 | Victor | Silvester | OLD TIME DANCING ©1949 | London | |
1950 | Victor | Silvester | SEQUENCE DANCING | London | |
1950 | Sydney | Thompson | The Theory & Practice of OLD TIME DANCING | London | |
c. | 1950 | Sydney | Thompson | Supplement to the Theory & Practice of OLD TIME DANCING | Middx. |
1950 | Dia & Harry | Trygg | OLD AND NEW ROUND DANCE FAVORITES | Tucson, AZ | |
1951 | Jacques | Bense | LES DANSES EN VOGUE (incl. Jerry Bug, Boogie-Woogie, Be-Bop, Mambo) | Paris | |
1951 | Dancing Times, Ltd. | THE BALLROOM DANCING ANNUAL 1951 | London | ||
1951 | Arthur | Murray | LET’S LEARN TO DANCE, Woman’s Home Companion Booklet | New York | |
1951 | Ginger | Osgood | TODAY'S ROUND DANCES | Los Angeles | |
1951 | Victor | Silvester | MORE OLD TIME DANCING | London | |
1951 | Sydney | Thompson | The Theory & Practice of OLD TIME DANCING (signed by author & his wife) | London | |
1951 | Sydney | Thompson | SYDNEY THOMPSON'S BULLETIN, #3 | Middlesex | |
1951 | Sydney | Thompson, ed. | OLD TIME DANCING Magazine Nov.-Dec. | Middlesex | |
c. | 1951 | anon | Complete set of handwritten notes of square, sequence, round dances and mixers |
c. | 1950 | Syd | Black | SYD BLACK'S OLDE TYME INSTRUCTIONS. Dances Simply Explained | Chapel-En-Le-Frith, England |
c. | 1950 | James | Burleigh | OLD TYME DANCES | London |
c. | 1950 | Murray | Dale | EASY-TO-LEARN DANCING | London |
1950 | John R. | Gillespie | OLD TIME DANCING Revised ed. ©1947 | London | |
1950 | Michael | Gwynne | OLD TIME AND SEQUENCE DANCING | London | |
1950 | Laure | Haile | SWING (Descriptions of many kinds of swing steps) | Tucson, AZ | |
c. | 1950 | Albert | Johnston | OLD TYME BALLROOM DANCES | London |
1950 | A. J. | Latimer | A SECOND BOUQUET OF OLD TIME DANCES | London | |
1950 | Official Board of Ballroom Dancing | OLD TIME AND SEQUENCE DANCES ©1947, revised 1950 | London | ||
1950 | Ginger | Osgood | DANCIN' A ROUND (round dances in square dancing) | Los Angeles, CA | |
1950 | P.J.S. | Richardson, Ed. | THE DANCING TIMES magazine (Mar, Jun, Jul, Nov, Dec) | London | |
1950 | Victor | Silvester | OLD TIME DANCING ©1949 | London | |
1950 | Victor | Silvester | SEQUENCE DANCING | London | |
1950 | Sydney | Thompson | The Theory & Practice of OLD TIME DANCING | London | |
c. | 1950 | Sydney | Thompson | Supplement to the Theory & Practice of OLD TIME DANCING | Middx. |
1950 | Dia & Harry | Trygg | OLD AND NEW ROUND DANCE FAVORITES | Tucson, AZ | |
1951 | Jacques | Bense | LES DANSES EN VOGUE (incl. Jerry Bug, Boogie-Woogie, Be-Bop, Mambo) | Paris | |
1951 | Dancing Times, Ltd. | THE BALLROOM DANCING ANNUAL 1951 | London | ||
1951 | Arthur | Murray | LET’S LEARN TO DANCE, Woman’s Home Companion Booklet | New York | |
1951 | Ginger | Osgood | TODAY'S ROUND DANCES | Los Angeles | |
1951 | Victor | Silvester | MORE OLD TIME DANCING | London | |
1951 | Sydney | Thompson | The Theory & Practice of OLD TIME DANCING (signed by author & his wife) | London | |
1951 | Sydney | Thompson | SYDNEY THOMPSON'S BULLETIN, #3 | Middlesex | |
1951 | Sydney | Thompson, ed. | OLD TIME DANCING Magazine Nov.-Dec. | Middlesex | |
c. | 1951 | anon | Complete set of handwritten notes of square, sequence, round dances and mixers |
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