Old Skating Books

My dance partner was loaned some old and slightly fragile books on skate dancing written in the 30's through the 50's. To preserve this historical data, we scanned the books and put them in PDF format. The books were originally the 5 1/2" by 8" size, but the scanning process changed them to 8 1/2" by 11" format. this makes them a bit easier to read. The books are in PDF format and can be downloaded by clicking on the cover. Note that since the size of the PDF's range between 5 and 20 megabytes, you should be using a DSL or Cable internet connection or some other high speed connection to download these books.

To download a book, the best bet is to right click the book cover and select "Save Link As" (Netscape/Mozilla) or "Save Target AS" (Internet Explorer). You will get a dialog box telling where to save the file. You can then open the file locally using
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ArtOfPlainSkating.PDF download
Art Of Plain Skating
Perry B. Rawson
1942 Size 5.9 Meg

 
ArtOfSkateDancing.PDF download
Art Of Skate Dancing
Perry B. Rawson
1942 Size 13.8 Meg

 
SkateDanceShortcuts.PDF download
Skate Dance Shortcuts
Perry B. Rawson
1946 Size 20.1 Meg

 
SkateDanceDiagrams.PDF download
Skate Dance Diagrams
Perry B. Rawson
circa. 1946 Size 5.3 Meg

 
OrigSkateDances.PDF download
Original Skate Dances
George & Elsbeth Muller
1952 size 17.4 Meg