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Streetswings Dance History Archives:
Mainly USA Balls ... more to come
Name
Location
City
State
Honoring
Dates
Black and Pooch Ball
Congress Hotel
-
NY
(Given By Irene Castle)
1940's?
Bradley Martin Ball
Waldorf Astoria
-
NY
-
2/10/1897
Butlers Ball
Riverside Plaza Hotel
New York City
NY
-
-
Birthnight Ball
-
Williamsburg.
VA
None
Late 1800's
Centennial Ball, The
Metrop. Opera Hse.
New York City
NY
Cent..
1900?
Chuck Connor's Ball
(Tammany Hall!)
-
NY
Gibson Girls?
1905
Drag Ball (annual)
-
Harlem
NY
-
1940's
Fairy Ball
Rockland Palace
(was raided /pd)
NY
Female Impersonators
1938
Fancy Ball
California Exchange?
-
CA
-
1857
Fat Men's Ball
Irving Hall
New York City
NY
-
1/7/1870
Grand Ball
City Hall
Washington
D.C.
President Lincoln
4/4/1861
Grand Ball
Academy of Music Hall
New York City
NY
Prince Of Wales
10/12/1860
Hunt Ball
Newport
-
-
-
9/14/1889
Inaugural Ball (1St. One)
Assembly Rooms
New York City
NY
George Washington
5/7/1789
Inaugural Ball
-
-
-
General Grant
-1869
Memphisto Ball
-
New York
NY
(Bonnie Glass)
1910's
Napier Ball, The
Willards Hotel
Washington City
-
None
2/17/1859
Revels At Merry Mount
USA
Merry Mount
MA
-
1600's
Un Bal Du Cour Louis XIV
France
-
-
Louis XIV
1800's?
Un Bal La Cour D' Henri III
France
-
-
Henry III
1600's?
Vanderbuilt 19th Century Ball
5th Avenue House
-
NY
-
1900's
Venetian Weddings
-
-
-
-
1500's
W.C Whitney Cotillion Ball
-
-
NY
1st of the century
1/4/1901
February 17, 2013
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