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Looks like newsprint on the walls

Exceopt for one image in this series, this is not square dancing. Just good "ole" country "two steppin".

I think you are right. Could be a 'round dance' at a square dance. The guy in the back is sweaty because he has just danced for a while - he didn't come that way.

I bet he didn't get another dance after that!! hehe Interesting series; I wonder why the pinkish hue of these photos from Oklahoma during this time? I'm suspecting that perhaps the roll of film (if it was medium format or 35mm) may have been subjected to heat, which can definately affect the color of the film.

looks a little like Marty Robbins dancing with the lady in the pretty dress ?

So far this is my favorite picture in the collection.

love it!

Photographer Russell Lee: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Lee_(photographer)

Oh my god! I remember seeing this picture like three years ago. It creeps me out so much. They look like they're dead.

color corrected version here

Square dance?!? Looks more like Balboa (wikipedia.org):

"Balboa is a form of swing dance that started as early as 1915 and gained in popularity in the 1930s and 1940s. It is danced primarily in close embrace, and is led with a full body connection... The dancers stand close, touching from hip to upper chest... The man's right front torso (rib cage) touches the woman's center front torso (rib cage)."

That's not how I learned to square dance! I would have to agree with WaiferX on this one.

Could be balboa, or another early dance like the Peabody. Given the year given (and the clothing seems to agree), I'd have to say balboa or a derivative. A square dance is sometimes a "called" dance, so it could be truly a square dance where they called a move that just happens to look like balboa. Lots of possibilities.

Could be at what folks called a 'square dance', where there were some 'called' square dances [Honolulu Baby, Just Because, Red River Gal, etc.] and also quite a few waltzes, foxtrots, polkas, interspersed.

great pic!