Their First Dancing Lesson: Museum Object and Cultural History
Their First Dancing Lesson: date made: 1900. maker: Keystone View Company. Object Name: stereograph.
The object in the museum catalogue
Two young children, a boy and a girl, in foreground learning to dance; woman in background, right playing the piano; man seated in chair in background, left. Girls smiling face reflected in the mirror.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1900
- maker: Keystone View Company
- Object Name: stereograph
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 3 1/2 in x 7 in; 8.89 cm x 17.78 cm
- Subject: Children
- Subject: Dancing
- Subject: Music
- ID Number: 2016.0066.115
- accession number: 2016.0066
- catalog number: 2016.0066.0115
- Credit Line: Wayne Hill Photographica Collection
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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