Jimmy Clossin - personal scrapbook
Jimmy Clossin, of El Paso, was one of the most influential Texas callers in the 1930s and beyond. Author of West Texas Square Dances, he also produced numerous albums though as far as we know, he never recorded himself calling dances. (The SDHP would dearly love to find a live recording of Clossin at work; please contact us if you know of one!)
In addition to documenting aspects of Clossin's early career, the scrapbook also includes many clippings related to Herb Greggerson's Bluebonnet Set, also from El Paso.
To make the scrapbook easier to read on screen, we have rotated some of the pages; to make the file smaller, we have eliminated some blank pages. In a few instances, where items were pasted in different orientations on one page, we have duplicated those pages and totated one of them to improve readibility.
The original is in the library of the University of Denver; many thanks to archivist Nathalie Proulx for helping make available this and other items from their extensive square dance collections.
Subjects: Traditional Western (pre-1940), Transitional/Western 1940s
Tags: El Paso, Herb Greggerson, Jimmy Clossin, Texas
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In addition to documenting aspects of Clossin's early career, the scrapbook also includes many clippings related to Herb Greggerson's Bluebonnet Set, also from El Paso.
To make the scrapbook easier to read on screen, we have rotated some of the pages; to make the file smaller, we have eliminated some blank pages. In a few instances, where items were pasted in different orientations on one page, we have duplicated those pages and totated one of them to improve readibility.
The original is in the library of the University of Denver; many thanks to archivist Nathalie Proulx for helping make available this and other items from their extensive square dance collections.
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Carson Brierly Giffin Dance Library
University of Denver