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Title
Swing dancers
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1938
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Verso of photo states: In swing slanguage, this is a "bree" (a fellow) and a "buddy ghee" or "chick" (a girl) doing a "trickeration" (strutting their stuff). They're Willis Hounschell and Tannis Adams on the ballroom floor. Photo dated: Jul. 2, 1938.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00059524
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 423.
CARL0000063288
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22827
Subject
Adams, Tannis
Hounschell, Willis
Dance parties
Dancers
Swing (Music)
Jitterbug (Dance)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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