Theater
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on drama as acted on the stage. Works on facilities used to stage drama are entered under Theaters. Works on drama as a literary form are entered under Drama.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
John T. Ford manuscript collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0371
Abstract
Manuscript collection of John Thompson Ford, owner and manager of Ford's Theatre in Washington at the time of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Includes correspondence of John T. Ford, Edwin Stanton, Henry Winter Davis, and Junius and Edwin Booth relating to the Lincoln assassination, Ford’s theater, and John T. Ford’s theatrical ventures. There are also notes and recollections Ford made relating to the assassination and subsequent trials. Newspaper clippings found in the collection...
Dates:
1832-1956