COLLECTION NAME:
Theatre Arts
Record
Title:
Jumpin' Jim Crow
Title.Alternate:
Jumping Jim Crow
Title.Series:
Dr. Tice Miller Lecture Slides
Collection Title:
Theatre Arts
Title.Series.Notes:
The images and accompanying notes in this collection are taken from the lecture slides of Dr. Tice Miller, covering the history of theatrical practice from ancient cultures through the 20th century. These files contain depictions of theatrical spaces, scenery, costumes, lighting, practitioners, and theoreticians, augmented by historical artifacts and cultural materials.
Collection Information:
Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402)-472-1193
Description:
Jumping Jim Crow became a national rage beginning in 1828, when the performer T. D. Rice introduced the dance at Ludlow and Smith's theater in Louisville, Kentucky ; this painting shows Rice on stage in 1833 at the Bowery Theatre in New York in a production written around the character and dance he had created
Subject.Persons:
Rice, Tom, 1808-1860 -- Performances
Subject.Entities:
Bowery Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
Subject:
Theater -- United States -- History -- 19th century ;Blackface entertainers ;Minstrel shows
Location:
New York (State)--New York
Classification Number:
USA9
Image.Publisher:
University of Nebraska--Lincoln, Libraries
Image.Date:
2014
Source:
Tice Miller, Professor Emeritus UNL ; scan from teaching slides, original source unknown
