Social Daunce Irregulars Victorian Grand Ball
The largest and most successful Victorian dance group in Southern California. They have been staging Victorian balls in Pasadena for over 20 years.
How to dance. A complete ball-room and party guide
How to dance. A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest figures, together with old-fashioned and contra dances now in general use. Also, a guide to ballroom etiquette, toilets, and general useful information for dancers. (1878)
Dancing and its relations to education and social life
Dancing and its relations to education and social life, with a new method of instruction:
Prof. Clendenen's fashionable quadrille book and guide to etiquette.
Quoting extensively from L.H. Elmwell's 1892 dance manual, this treatise is aimed at prompters of quadrilles. The Manual includes a brief explanation of quadrille figures and etiquette (with emphasis on etiquette while performing quadrilles). Quadrille figures are included with appropriate calls for the prompter.
Silver and Gold - Images of the Gold Rush from the Oakland Museum
This is a collection of portrait images taken during the California Gold Rush (1849 through the 1850s)
Santa Monica Public Library Photo Collection
The Library's Santa Monica Collection contains historical photographs and slides (Imagine Santa Monica).
San Francisco Public Library Photo Collection
The San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection, located in the San Francisco History Center on the 6th floor, contains photographs and works on paper of San Francisco and California views from 1850 to the present.
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
The Los Angeles Public Library has an extensive online collection of historical images.
