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