“The 3 Bears take a morning walk”, [5] p., The Three bears by R. André.

This week finds a number of new titles added to the collections including three more fairy tales in the Puss-in-Boots series; more progress on the Barry-Hayes collection; a number of new story paper issues, and a significant scrapbook by the comedian-detective Samuel (Tucker) Tugentman. To top it off: all 52 issues of the 1914 Ardmore Chronicle are now available.

Americana

Playbill, Selwyn’s Theater, July 4, 1870
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:336426]

Sam Tucker & Co. trade card

Samuel Tugentman scrapbook
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:367774]

Leaflets from the beyond / by Gilbert Haven (Late Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:368174]

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

Jack & the beanstalk
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:363272]

[4],
Puss in Boots.

Puss in Boots: / cobbled by R. Andre
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:366901]

The Three bears : : / the pictures by R. André
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:363290]

Non-Fiction

Is the Devil the Father of Spiritualism? / by G. Tabor Thompson, D.D.
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:367929]

Periodicals

Cover detail,
Happy days : a paper for young and old, v. XLI, no. 1052, December 12, 1914.

Happy Days (3 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:367343]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:361234]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:361609]

The New York Ledger, v. XIV, no. 33, October 23, 1858.

New York Ledger (1 issue added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:366199]

Historical Society of Montgomery County

Ardmore Chronicle

[5] p. Ardmore Chronicle – Volume XXVII, No. 23, Saturday, March 11, 1916.

1914 (completed – all 52 issues available)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:356010]

1916 (9 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:366658]

Independence Seaport Museum

Barry-Hayes

Series LXIV. Narratives and poetry (6 added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:367369]

Series LXXIII. Fragments (16 added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:367276]

Series LXXV. Publications (3 added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:367361]

“The First Glimpse of a Strange Land”, [6] p., from
Jack & the beanstalk.