TY  - GEN
AU  - Ford,John Thompson
AU  - Ford,Annie
AU  - Ford,Lizzie
TI  - John Thompson Ford papers,
KW  - Booth, Edwin,
KW  - Booth, John Wilkes,
KW  - Forrest, Edwin,
KW  - Gilbert, W. S.
KW  - Jefferson, Joseph,
KW  - Lincoln, Abraham,
KW  - Sullivan, Arthur,
KW  - Tayleure, Clifton W.,
KW  - Winter, William,
KW  - Ford's Theatre (Washington, D.C.)
KW  - Grand Opera House (Baltimore, Md.)
KW  - Holliday Street Theatre (Baltimore, Md.)
KW  - Charities
KW  - Theaters
KW  - Maryland
KW  - Baltimore
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - Philadelphia
KW  - South Carolina
KW  - Charleston
KW  - Theater
KW  - United States
KW  - Alexandria
KW  - Richmond
KW  - Virginia
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - Baltimore (Md.)
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Dramatists
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Executives
N1  - Open to research
N2  - 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
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011157
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011157.3
ER  -