Dancing in the Woods
date: label: date made
content: 1885-1910
name: label: maker
content: Hussey, Walter J.
notes: label: Description
content: Glass plate negative made by Walter J. Hussey, 1885-1910. Image of wooden floor with couples dancing on it musicians on left, children in the background.
label: Description
content: Seven couples dancing to music provided by a quartet consisting of three string players (two violin and one string bass) and a clarinet player on a large wooden “dance floor” that had been assembled in a woods. Children watching the couples dancing are visible under trees in the background.
label: Description
content: The collection in the Photographic History Collection consists of over two hundred glass plate negatives made by Walter J. Hussey (1865-1959). These glass plate negatives consist of daily life in and around Mount Pleasant, Ohio, Mr. Hussey's friends and family, studio portraits, his trips to the Washington, D.C. area, and Florida.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Mount Pleasant
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Walter J. Hussey Collection
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content: Photography
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift from Richard S. Hussey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0080.36
label: accession number
content: 2010.0080
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0080.36
objectType: label: Object Name
content: glass negative
label: Object Name
content: photograph
label: Object Name
content: glass plate negative
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 8 in; 12.7 cm x 20.32 cm