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Postcard depicting 'The Dance. The Cake Walk', c.1900 (colour litho)

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NYL619167
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Postcard depicting 'The Dance. The Cake Walk', c.1900 (colour litho)
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Carter, Sydney (1874-1945) / American
Location
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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© New York Public Library / Bridgeman Images
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