Keywords: Shelby County, Iowa. Dances are sometimes given in the "Old Opera House" (a privately-owned building . . . - NARA - 522397.jpg Scope and content Full caption reads as follows Shelby County Iowa Dances are sometimes given in the Old Opera House a privately-owned building by the members of the local dance club These young people pool their money and rent the hall bringing in one of eight or nine small orchestras from the surrounding towns About 140 people are required to make these affairs balance financially On this particular occasion the roads were poor and only about 40 couples all of them from Irwin attended General notes 522397 Local identifier 83-G-44228 Department of Agriculture Bureau of Agricultural Economics Division of Economic Information ca 1922 - ca 1953 NARA-Author Rusinow Irving Photographer 5307166 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 1941 05 02 - 1941 05 07 Record group Record Group 83 Records of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics 1876 - 1959 Record group ARC 412 Photographic Prints Documenting Programs and Activities of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and Predecessor Agencies compiled ca 1922 - ca 1947 documenting the period ca 1911 - ca 1947 Series ARC 521048 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-83-G-44228 Other versions <gallery> File Shelby_County _Iowa _Dances_are_sometimes_given_in_the_ Old_Opera_House _ a_privately-owned_building_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_522397 tif tif File Shelby_County _Iowa _Dances_are_sometimes_given_in_the_ Old_Opera_House _ a_privately-owned_building_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_522397 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Irving Rusinow Shelby County Iowa |