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Ford's Theater ad Baltimore The Birth of a Nation March 6 1915 color added 2013 Framed Print
by David Lee Guss
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Ford's Theater ad Baltimore The Birth of a Nation March 6 1915 color added 2013 framed print by David Lee Guss. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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Ford's Theater in Baltimore, Maryland showed The Birth of a Nation on March 6, 1915, two days before its official opening at Clune's Auditorium... more
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Ford's Theater in Baltimore, Maryland showed "The Birth of a Nation" on March 6, 1915, two days before its official opening at Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles.
President Abraham Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865 while attending a play at Ford's.
The theater was restored and re-opened in 2009.
About David Lee Guss
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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