Edwin Forrest in the title role of Metamora by John Augustus Stone. Engraving by T. Johnson after a photograph by Mathew Brady, circa 1859

Lithograph advertising "Mr. T. Rice as Jim Crow," circa 1830s.

Detail from sheet music cover of "Sich a Getting Up Stairs," featuring Thomas D. Rice.

The "Zip Coon" blackface minstrelsy character.

A Five Points district oyster cellar, from George Foster's New York by Gas-light (1850).

The cover of the American Phrenological Journal, March 1848.