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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.
- 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
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