MS 7861 National Square Dance Society of Australia
Material collected on the history of square dancing in Australia
for the 25th National Square Dance Convention, 1984
BOX 1 (Lever Arch files)
Folders 1-2 - Callers' Gallery questionnaires, 1982-3
Folder 3 - Profiles and photographs of callers
Folder 4 - Reminiscences of square dancing
1984 Convention posters
BOX 2 (Lever Arch files)
Folders 5-6 - State by state chronologies of the history of square
dancing, constructed from questionnaires and reminiscences
Folder 7 - Queensland: cuttings and memorabilia re the history of
square dancing in that state
Folder 8 - New South Wales: cuttings and memorabilia
BOX 3 (Lever Arch files)
Folder 9 - ACT, Victoria, Tasmania, W.A., South Australia, New
Zealand: cuttings and memorabilia
Folder 10 - History and memorabilia of the 1950s, donated by Joe Lewis
of Dallas, Texas
Folders 11-12 - Photocopies of leaflets and ephemera re square dancing in
the 1950s.
Three folio size braille books
BOX 4
Folder 13 - Letters received from Europe and the USA, 1982-83 re the
histroy of square dance fashion
Folder 14 - 25th Australian National "Silver Jubilee" Square Dance
Convention, Canberra, 1984:programme, clippings, photographs
Folder 15 - Five strips of photographic negatives of South Australian
newspaper articles on square dancing
- Copies of The Roundup (Minnesota), May and July 1982
- American Square Dance National Convention programme, June
1982
Three VHS videotapes - Wagga Wagga, 27 November 1982
- Jim Vickers-Willis: interview, 1983
- Bill Buttolf calling in New Zealand, 1981
Book - Joe Lewis calling: square dancing for new dancers and new callers (Sydney : A&R, 1950)
N.B. 13 audio cassettes of callers transferred to Oral History collection
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