This joint is jumpin’

Page from a most unusual advertising booklet for Quaker Oats, 1898.

Professional instruction is available:

There is inspiration on hand:

…here, too:

…not to mention, here:

Yes, folks, it’s all happening, down at the Ole’ Internet Archive! Cast off your inhibitions, and get on down there.

Or else, I suppose the more enervated among you could always just go and look at the wisteria:

Japanese Lantern Slides From The E. Raymond Wilson Collection