Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Contents | Arrangement
Collection Summary
Title | John Thompson Ford papers, 1809-1960 |
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Span Dates | 1809-1960 |
Bulk Dates | (bulk 1850-1894) |
ID No. | MSS61995 |
Creator | Ford, John Thompson, 1829-1894 |
Extent | 5,000 items ; 22 containers plus 12 oversize ; 15.2 linear feet |
Language | Collection material in English |
Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
Summary | Theater executive and dramatist. Correspondence, playbooks, playbills, subject files, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to Ford's life and work as a theater manager in Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., in the last half of the nineteenth century, including the assassination by John Wilkes Booth of President Abraham Lincoln at his theater in Washington. |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011157 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Online Catalog record for this collection: http://lccn.loc.gov/mm87061995 |