[Stoddard lecture programs]
Contributors: Reed, Mignon, Mrs; Stoddard, Seneca Ray, 1844-1917; Academy of Music (Washington, D.C.); First Congregational Church (Washington, D.C.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1906
Language: eng
Description: A small collection of programs and program clippings for travel lectures given by John L. Stoddard between 1890 and 1897. Venues include the First Congregational Church and the Academy of Music, Washington, D.C. Also includes illustrated advertisement sheet with press comments from 1897.
Notes: Title devised by Library staff.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
Table of contents: title: [1]. The Stoddard Lectures, eleventh season, 1889-90: First Congregational Church, Washington, D.C., lecture by John L. Stoddard, Saturday and Monday evenings, February 15 and 17 [1890] "Berlin in Eighteen Hundred Eighty Nine," Teusday and Wednesday evenings, February 18 and 19 [1890] "Switzerland"; title: [2]. The Stoddard Lectures, fourteenth season, 1893-'94. John L. Stoddard takes pleasure in announcing that his new course of 5 wonderfully illustrated lectures which have required a year's travel in foreign lands, and the expenditure of many thousands of dollars, will be given at The Academy of Music. I. "Eastern Japan." II. "Western Japan." III. "China." IV. "Farther India." V. "Nearer India"; title: [3]. Academy of Music, W.H. Rapley, manager, week opening Monday, March 7, 1892, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings, March 7,8 and 9. "Lecture by John L. Stoddard, Travels in Sunny Spain"; title: [4]. Academy of Music, W.H. Rapley, manager, week of Monday, March 12, 1894. "Mr. John L. Stoddard's Illustrated Lectures," fourteenth season, under the management of Burditt & North. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings at 8, also Saturday matineee at 2.30 "Subject: Picturesque Japan." Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings: "Subject: The Heart of Old Japan"; title: [5]. "Cruising the Mediterranean (A Visit to the Holy Land)" illustrated lectue by Mrs. Mignon Reed (views by S.R. Stoddard), including scenes in Bermuda, Gibraltar, Spain, Algiers, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Syria Egypt and Palestine [1897].