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{{Short description|Online collection of dance manuals}}
'''An American Ballroom Companion''' is an online collection of over two hundred [[social dance]] manuals at the [[Library of Congress]] related to the period of cca. 1490--1920.  Along with social dance instruction manuals, this online presentation also includes a significant number of antidance manuals, histories, treatises on etiquette, information about theatrical dance. 

The collection presents dance materials from various locations of the Library: General Collections, the Music Division, and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

The collection also presents a number of videoclips to illustrate the materials. The clips were recorded on several Library of Congress events starting from the 100th anniversary of the Library's [[Thomas Jefferson Building|Jefferson Building]] held in 1997.

==External links==
*[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/dihome.html An American Ballroom Companion home page]

[[Category:Ballroom dance]]
[[Category:Historical dance]]
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