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Postcard depicting the Cake Walk, c.1900 (colour litho)

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NYL619165
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Postcard depicting the Cake Walk, c.1900 (colour litho)
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American School, (19th century) / American
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New York Public Library, USA
Medium
colour lithograph
Date
c. 1900 AD (C19th AD)
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The Cakewalk dance was developed from a "Prize Walk" done in the days of slavery, generally at get-togethers on plantations in the Southern United States. Alternative names for the original form of the dance were "chalkline-walk", and the "walk-around".

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