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Scene at square dance, McIntosh county, Oklahoma (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 1 older comment, and then…
• jdavis417 said:

  Title: Buffalo Gals

• artpease said:

  Now, this is a 'square dance'! The four couple you can see [including the hand] are in a circle, doing a 'grand right and left', where the men go in one direction around the 'square' of four couples and the women the other, given each other alternatively their right and left hand as they pass in the opposite direction [see the arm and hand directly at the back of the photo]. This is probably as the dancers have been around the circle and met their partners, where they would 'swing'.

• David Bessent said:

  Definitely before McDonald's.

• Janet said:

  this is awesome. they all look rather drear and unhappy though

• Rich said:

  People were very poor. Food was in short supply. You don't get fat on poke salad, corn pone and pinto beans.