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Dancing in the garden, 1930s

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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, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/40943/dancing-in-the-garden-1930s (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Megan Cook, published 27 February 2013.