1.15.29
Card, Dance
1896
Um-Zoo-Wee Club Dance Card. Material: paper, textile. Size: 3" x 4 1/2" folded card. Description: white card stock folder dance card with a pink tasseled cord attached; printed diagonally across front in red and gold: "A Happy New Year, UM-ZOO-WEE CLUB, Season 1896-97, Third Season"; inside programme starting at 8:30 p.m. with 18 numbered lines filled in with women's names next to the name of the dance: 1 Waltz - Salma; 2 Deux Temps - Emma; 3 Waltz - Jo Welch; 4 Deux Temps - Miss Herzog; 5 Waltz - Salma; 6 Deux Temps - Salma; 7 Lanciers - Mrs. Warren; 8 Waltz - Miss Hale; 9 Deux Temps - Mrs. Ward; 10 Waltz Mrs. Lyons; 11 Deux Temps - Blank; 12 Waltz Quadrille - Jo Welch; 13 Deux Temps - Mrs. Lyons; 14 Waltz - Mrs. Lyons; 15 Deux Temps - Mrs. Humphreys; 16 Waltz - Miss Hale; 1st Extra - Salma; 2nd Extra - Miss Lougee. Reverse side of card handwritten 4th - Miss Armstrong and 8 - Miss Bughe; printed are the names of the club officers. Minneapolis social club in the 1890s.
The UM-ZOO-WEE Club was a Minneapolis social club whose members included the Emerson Cole family; daughter, Daisy Cole married Roscoe Percy Ward in 1893 and it appears that Waseca people were guests at a club dance in 1896.