Story: Dancing

Dancing in the garden, 1930s

Dancing in the garden, 1930s

A group dance on a lawn on a sunny afternoon at a private garden party in the 1930s. Many of them look middle-aged, and may have been the enthusiastic dancers described by newspapers of the 1920s, when the foxtrot was in vogue.

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Megan Cook, 'Dancing - Jazz to rock ’n’ roll', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/40943/dancing-in-the-garden-1930s (accessed 26 April 2024)

Story by Megan Cook, published 5 Sep 2013