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1940 Texas Square Dance Contest

Creator: Burns Bennett (September 16, 1940)

Newspaper accounts of a square dance competition won by Bob Sumrall's Abilene set. The story goes into detail about each of the six competing teams,naming each of the dancers, the judges, and the organizers, and describing clothing, figures performed, and tunes used in the competition. An accompanying column (p. 3 of the PDF) reveals that paid attendance was 1,700, and reports that Sumrall says his team has won eight of the ten contests in which they entered.

Collection: Traditional western
Subjects: Traditional Western (pre-1940)
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Item Relations

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Citation

Burns Bennett, “1940 Texas Square Dance Contest,” Square Dance History Project, accessed February 23, 2025, https://squaredancehistory.org/items/show/1516.
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