Front cover, Un Combat dans le Sacramento

Enjoy a few new items this week! Especially noteworthy are the first digitized issues of the Fenian newspaper, “The Irish Republic”, from 1867, and the initial parts of a large collection of plates documenting a snapshot of the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in 1888.

Catholica Collection

Plate, The Right Rev. Rupert Seidenbusch, D.D., O.S.B., Bishop of Halia and Vicar Apostolic of Northern Minnesota

The Hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States (59 parts added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:397006]

Newspapers

The Catholic Standard and Times (1916: 3 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:395072]

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Covers and Illustrations

Un Combat dans le Sacramento
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:396752]

Paratextual Materials

New York Family Story Paper Bride of the Tomb 1887 calendar

New York Family Story Paper Bride of the Tomb 1887 calendar
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:396115]

Joseph McGarrity Collection

Newspapers

Masthead, The Irish Republic : a journal of liberty, literature, and social progress, v. 1, no. 5, June 1, 1867

Irish Republic (5 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:398433]

Plate, The Right Rev. Alfred A. Curtis, D.D., Bishop of Wilmington, Del.