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Title: Variation of the Chicago Shag
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: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: So intricate are the dance steps that many have no names. This, however, is a variation of the Chicago Shag, danced by Wes Hobba and his sister, Shirley. Photo dated: November 1938.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00039773
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 8022 Jitterbug.
CARL0000043426
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15530
Subject: Hobba, Wes
Hobba, Shirley
Dancers--California--Los Angeles
Swing (Music)--California--Los Angeles
Jitterbug (Dance)--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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