[Thanks to Ward Project Music Cataloger Andrea Cawelti for contributing this post.] Exploding the myth that 19th century balls were sedate affairs, a new acquisition in the John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection shows 12 hand-colored lithographs of various balls, ca. 1854. As one can see at a glance, the waltzes and polkas of…
Day: August 30, 2010
