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Edward Williams Clay (1799–1857)  |
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American cartoonist
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1799 |
1857 |
publisher: E. Riley at 29 Chatham Street, New York City |
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Cover to early edition of Jump Jim Crow sheet music Thomas D. Rice is pictured in his blackface role; he was performing at the Bowery Theatre (also known as the "American Theatre") at the time. This image was highly influential on later Jim Crow and minstrelsy images.
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circa 1832 |
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lithograph |
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26 × 18 cm (10.2 × 7.1 in) |
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- The Voices That are Gone: Themes in Nineteenth-Century American Popular Song, pp. 163-164, ISBN 0195113829
- Jump Jim Crow: Lost Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture, pp. 9, 416, ISBN 0674010620
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Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia: Home - pic |
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