To celebrate Valentine's Day, I'm featuring some of my favorite images of romantic dance couples. Couples interact in the dance in a way that mirrors the "dance" of relationships, and in watching dancers we can share in the beauty and heightened emotions that are conveyed. The following images illustrate various dances, including the waltz, the tango, and the mambo, and feature dancers from the early 19th Century to the 1950s.
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| Couple In Regency Era Dress-Birthday Card (1905) (source) |
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| Mid 19th Century Sheet Music |
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| Dance In the City by Renoir (1883) (source) |
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| Valentine's Day Card by Ellen Clapsaddle (Circa 1900-1910) |
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| The Ballroom-The Waltz- Stereograph Card (1902) (Courtesy of Library of Congress) |
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| A Dance At the Hyde Park Hotel, London (1907) (source) |
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| "Her Step Was as Light as the Marble Fawn, Dancing the Marble Waltz"- Couple Kisses While Dancing- Stereograph Card (1907) (Courtesy of Library of Congress) |
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| Sheet Music Image (1908) (Courtesy of New York Public Library) | |
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| Sheet Music Image (1910) |
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| Sheet Music Image (1911) |
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| Sheet Music Image (1912) |
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| Postcard L. Usabal (1910's) (source) |
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| Postcard L. Usabal (1910's) (source) |
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| Postcard L. Usabal (1910's) (source) |
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| Postcard L. Usabal (1910's) (source) |
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| Postcard L. Usabal (1910's) (source) |
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| Postcard 1910's |
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| Postcard 1910s |
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| Dancing Couples, No. 2 By Anne Harriet Fish (1890-1964) (Image Appeared on Cover of Vanity Fair, March 1921) (Courtesy of Library of Congress) |
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| Dance Floor With Couples (1934) (Courtesy of Library of Congress) |
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| Dancing the Mambo (1953) |
