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BOX 15-17 Playbills, 1856-1881
Theater programs and broadsides.
Arranged chronologically under the name of the theater.
BOX 15 Holliday Street Theatre, Baltimore, Md.
22 Aug. 1856-1 Aug. 1857 See Oversize
7 Sept. 1860-18 Apr. 1861
21 Aug. 1861-22 July 1862 See Oversize
20 Aug. 1863-25 June 1864 See Oversize
BOX 16 1 Aug. 1867-11 June 1868
Feb.-June 1871 See Oversize
Ford's Grand Opera House, Baltimore, Md.
13 Sept. 1875-27 May 1876 See Oversize
BOX 17 2 Feb.-27 May 1876 ( The Stage)
Sept. 1876-2 June 1877 See Oversize
18 Aug. 1879-28 May 1880 See Oversize
21 Aug. 1880-2 Apr. 1881 See Oversize
Ford's Athenaeum, Washington, D.C., 19 Mar.-31 Dec. 1862 See Oversize
Ford's New Theatre, Washington, D.C., 26 Aug. 1863-6 Aug. 1864 See Oversize
BOX 18-21 Scrapbooks, 1846-1923
Lizzie Ford's scrapbooks.
Arranged according to the numbers assigned to six of the volumes by Lizzie Ford, followed by a seventh unnumbered volume. Scrapbooks are accompanied by folders of loose material that had been inserted in the volumes.
BOX 18 Vol. 1
(2 folders)
Vol. 2
(2 folders)
BOX 19 Vol. 3
(2 folders)
Vol. 4
(2 folders)
BOX 20 Vol. 5 See also Oversize
(3 folders)
Vol. 6
(2 folders)
BOX 21 Vol. 7
(2 folders)
BOX 21-22 Addition, 1849-1960
Family correspondence, ledger, photocopies of autographs books, incomplete typescript biography of John Thompson Ford, a list of plays, printed matter, and other documents.
Arranged alphabetically by topic or type of material.
BOX 21 Account book for free summer excursions used as a notebook, 1876, undated
Autograph books, photocopies
Ford, Annie E., 1849-1877
Ford, Lizzie, 1867-1924
Charleston Theatre, Charleston, S.C., 1869-1870
Family correspondence, 1858-1886, 1893
(4 folders)
Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., circa 1863, 1960, undated See also Oversize
Holliday Street Theatre, Baltimore, Md., list of plays in library, 1874, undated
"John T. Ford of Baltimore," incomplete biography by John Ford Sollers, undated
BOX 22 Ledger and scrapbook, 1869-1879
Menus, 1883-1889
Miscellany, 1915, undated
Printed matter, 1859, 1870
(2 folders)
BOX OV 1-OV 12 Oversize, 1856-1893
Programs, broadsides, and a theater seating plan.
Arranged and described according to the series, containers, and folders from which the items were removed.
BOX OV 1 Playbills
Holliday Street Theatre, Baltimore, Md.
22 Aug. 1856-1 Aug. 1857 (Container 15)
BOX OV 2 21 Aug. 1861-22 July 1862 (Container 15)
BOX OV 3 20 Aug. 1863-25 June 1864 (Container 15)
BOX OV 4 Feb.-June 1871 (Container 16)
BOX OV 5 Ford's Grand Opera House, Baltimore, Md.
13 Sept. 1875-27 May 1876 (Container 16)
BOX OV 6 Sept. 1876-2 June 1877 (Container 17)
BOX OV 7 18 Aug. 1879-28 May 1880 (Container 17)
BOX OV 8 21 Aug. 1880-2 Apr. 1881 (Container 17)
BOX OV 9 Ford's Athenaeum, Washington, D.C.
19 Mar.-31 Dec. 1862 (Container 17)
(1 vol.)
BOX OV 10 (1 vol.)
BOX OV 11 Ford's New Theatre, Washington, D.C.
26 Aug. 1863-6 Aug. 1864 (Container 17)
BOX OV 12 Scrapbooks
Vol. 5, 1893 (Container 20)
Addition
Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., circa 1863 (Container 21)

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