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Correspondence, play scripts and other writings, subject files, playbooks, playbills, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to Ford's life and work as a theater manager in the last half of the nineteenth century. Documents his interaction with major theatrical figures of the period; the productions featured at his theaters in Baltimore, Md., Philadelphia, Pa.; Charleston, S.C., Alexandria, Va., Richmond, Va., and Washington, D.C.; the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by the actor John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.; and Ford's political career in Baltimore, Md. Subjects include the Holliday Street Theatre and Grand Opera House in Baltimore, Md., and Ford's charitable activities and management of Gilbert and Sullivan productions. Includes seating plans for Ford's Theatre and writings, notes, and scrapbooks of his daughters, Annie E. Ford and Lizzie Ford. Correspondents include Edwin Booth, Edwin Forrest, Joseph Jefferson, Clifton W. Tayleure, and William Winter.

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English
Pages
5000

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Open to research.

Gift, Stanley W. McClure, 1960.

Gift, John F. Sollers, 1986-1998.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Theater executive and dramatist.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.

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5,000 22 12 15.2
Number of pages
5000

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OL25113399M
LCCN
87061995

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