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Title: Dance card, Minstrel show dance

Description: A small cardboard card dance card approximately 12 cm tall and 5 cm wide. Printed in blue ink at the center top is the title "Minstrel Show Dance," and beneath that extending three quarters down the card are 12 separate areas for signatures, each with the word "Boston" written underneath. The bottom quarter is titled "Extras" and includes an additional four spaces. Handwritten in black is the name "Olive" at the very top of the card. In the same ink, 8 of the 12 Boston spaces have names written on them, 4 have little x's and 3 of the four extra spaces have names with one small x in the remaining space.

Subject: Dances

Type: Dance card

Identifier: orh-35-b

 


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