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Photo Credit: copy photo: J. Giammatteo
Bookmark (persistent url): https://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu/objects-1/info/5585
Practice Christmas Party, Arthur Murray Dance Studio, Biltmore Hotel, Providence, RI
197420th century
279 x 356 mm (11 x 14 in.)
Peter Feresten, American, b. born ca. 1945
- Christmas
- dance - Performing art form realized in rhythmic movement, creating visual designs by a series of poses and tracing of patterns through space in the course of measured units of time. [November 1994 scope note added. February 1993 related term added.]
- dancers - Use for those who engage in the activity of dancing or who practice the art of dance, especially as a profession. [November 1994 scope note added. February 1993 related term added. November 1992 alternate term added.]
- holidays
- hotels (public accommodations)
- New England - TGN 7014203 (general region): Refers to several states settled by English colonists, including Connecticut, Maine, Massaschusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. The coastline has many harbors. It is on a broad continental shelf, with forested hills inland. It was inhabited by the 9th mill. BCE; the Algonquians were here when the Europeans settled in early 17th century.
- Northeastern United States - TGN 4011496 (general region): The term typically refers to New England and the northern Atlantic seaboard, including Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey.
- Providence - TGN 7013952
- Rhode Island - TGN 7007711
- winter
- sheet Dimensions: 279 x 356 mm (11 x 14 in.)
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Peter Feresten, American, b. born ca. 1945 . Practice Christmas Party, Arthur Murray Dance Studio, Biltmore Hotel, Providence, RI, 1974. Gelatin silver print. sheet : 279 x 356 mm (11 x 14 in.). DAC accession number 1991.30.18. Gift of Russell G. D’Oench, Jr., 1991. (copy photo: J. Giammatteo) .