A well-filled dance card can be seen below this sketch of a ball at Government House in Auckland in 1864. The artist was Lieutenant Colonel Edward Williams, who served in the Waikato and South Taranaki campaigns of the New Zealand wars.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference:
A-284-027
Watercolour by Edward Arthur Williams
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