Dance card
Archival History
The dance card was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2002 by Julia Schor, the step-granddaughter of Melanie Mautner.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Julia Schor
Scope and Content
The dance card consists of a small booklet with an intricately decorated cover and a pencil hanging from a cord at the side. Dance cards, or "Ballspenden," were especially popular at balls in Vienna, Austria, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They were used to list, in order, the names of the partners with whom a woman had agreed to dance at a formal ball or party.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Genre
- Office Equipment and Supplies
- Object
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