The Philadelphia Dancing Assembly (1749–1849) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… folio, 1772 and 1785. Image ‘Young Martha and George Washington’, Library of Congress, Popular and applied graphic art prints, PAGA 7, no. 3431, 1904. Image The Subscribers of the City Dancing Assembly’, United States Gazette … diversion. 11 Image Legend ‘Young Martha and George Washington’, Library of Congress, Popular and applied graphic art prints, PAGA 7, no. 3431, 1904. 11 . For example, a letter from Major Samuel Shaw to his friend Winthrop Sargeant … . Andrew Brown, advertising in the Pennsylvania Packet (17 Dec. 1784). So pleasing was it that enterprising Philadelphia printers began publishing American dance texts, including The American Ladies Pocket Books of 1797 and ’99, with ‘New …
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