The Philadelphia Dancing Assembly (1749–1849) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… 3431, 1904. Image The Subscribers of the City Dancing Assembly’, United States Gazette (Philadelphia), Dec. 12, 1798, America’s Historical Newspapers database. Abstract The upper class of Philadelphia—a political, economic, and cultural center in eighteenth-century British North America—followed English patterns of sociability in order to distinguish themselves in colonial society and to mix in … among colonial and early-national social elites. Places > Sports & Leisure Keywords Assemblies Advertisement Dance North America For many in British North America’s upper and aspiring classes during the eighteenth century, the English social …
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