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Author

Edward Williams Clay (–1857)
Alternative names	Edward W. Clay
Description	American cartoonist
Date of birth/death	17 April 1799 / 1792	31 December 1857 / 1857
Location of birth	Philadelphia
Authority file	: Q15532610 VIAF: 41698217 ISNI: 0000000067061802 ULAN: 500019775 LCCN: nr91034848 RKD: 17137 WorldCat

publisher: E. Riley at 29 Chatham Street, New York City

Description

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.

Date

circa 1832

Medium

lithograph

Dimensions

height: 26 cm (10.2 in); width: 18 cm (7 in)

References

Robert Cushman Butler Collection of Theatrical Illustrations, Washington State University Libraries
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

Source/Photographer

Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia: Home - pic

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