Apr 07, 2022 - Sale 2600

Sale 2600 - Lot 233

Price Realized: $ 688
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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(THEATER.) Theatre Royal playbill for "Mr. Rice, Old Jim Crow! Received Nightly with Uproarious Applause." Letterpress broadside, 15 x 19 3/4 inches, in two columns with vertical fold as issued; uncut, minimal foxing and wear. [London], 30 January 1843
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A British appearance by the American actor Thomas Dartmouth Rice and his character "Jim Crow," which was introduced in 1832. Jim Crow was the key development in the spread of blackface minstrelsy in America. This performance was of a "comic burletta in One Act, called Jim Crow in his New Place," in which "Mr. Rice . . . will introduce his Popular Negro Melodies."