Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Collection Summary
| Title | John Thompson Ford papers, 1809-1960 |
|---|---|
| Inclusive Dates | 1809-1960 |
| Bulk Dates | 1850-1894 |
| ID No. | MSS61995 |
| Creator | Ford, John Thompson, 1829-1894 |
| Extent | 5,000 items |
| Extent | 22 containers plus 12 oversize |
| Extent | 15.2 linear feet |
| Language | Collection material in English |
| Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
| Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011157 |
| LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm87061995 |
| 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. |