Content Roundup – First Week – October 2013
The hot reads in town this week are: a New York City Fire Department Scrapbook kept during the years 1906 to 1909; several Happy Days story paper issues featuring stories of escapes and rescues from burning buildings; a host of new materials from the Independence Seaport’s Barry-Hayes collection, and finally a colored lithograph from Philadelphia printers Packard and Butler, showing the burning of St. Xavier’s Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. Enjoy your digital reading, but remember to keep your passions in check least they kindle a fire!
Americana
Scrapbook, New York City Fire Department, Company 62.
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:306286]
Catholica
American Catholic Historical Society
Burning of St. Xavier’s Church, Cincinnati, Ohio (Church Lithographs (Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithographs)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:304971]
Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Periodicals
Good Stories (collection created, 1 item added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:307017]
Vickery’s Fireside Visitor (1 issue added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:307043]
Happy Days (3 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:305892]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:306838]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:307849]
People’s Home Journal (4 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:307069]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:306865]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:306995]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:306891]
Scholarship
LeBlanc Bibliography, Binder 5
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:305716]
The Spare Change Library podcast
Bride of the Tomb, Chapter 17
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:286583]
Independence Seaport Museum
Barry-Hayes Papers
Series XLVIII Job Somers (I) (29 item added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:305702]
Series XLIX Job Somers (II) (1 item added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:307095]
Series L John Somers (3 item added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:307907]
Joseph McGarrity Collection
Newspapers
The National Democrat (5 issues added, collection created)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:305715]
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