William II, German Kaiser. Frontispiece, Das Maschinengewehr 08.

As the beginning of summer looms, consider ending spring 2014 by reading a newly available book! The Digital Library front-end is fully supported for mobile devices – so that means all of the treasures that you are reading can be considered “Beach Reading”! This week brings to your consideration new materials from the Barry-Hayes Papers, and new issue of Philadelphia’s Saturday Night story paper, and a German Machine Gun manual from 1917!

Newly added this week:

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Periodicals

Saturday Night (1 issue from 1886 added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:351643]

Great War

Gefreiter Heinrich Möllering Papers

Title page,
Das Maschinengewehr 08.

Das Maschinengewehr 08 : Auszug aus dem Unterrichtsbuch für die Maschinengewehr
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:348181]

Independence Seaport Museum

Barry Hayes Papers

Account Statement, To: Joseph M. Warner in Account with Owners of the Ship Tontine, April 23, 1824

Series LVIII Ships’ Papers (22 item added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:318371]

Receipt, To: Mate for Wages Owed From: Captain Joseph M. Warner, March 27, 1824