[1] p., Photograph album, Traveling theater companies and vaudeville acts in America, 1910-1921

This week brings a trove of newly digitized content to your attention. Especially noteworthy is a photograph album of traveling circus and theater performers as they travel journey across the United States, over a span of years. Also available: more newspaper issues from across the collections, papers related to crime and policing in the Philadelphia region, and more ephemera relating to the Catholic Club of Philadelphia featuring early dinner menus and programs.

Americana

[33] p., “Characters in the Sheriff’s Bride”

Photograph album, Traveling theater companies and vaudeville acts in America, 1910-1921
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:425275]

Catholica

Newspapers

Catholic Weekly Instructor (9 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:408956]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:408962]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:418144]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:418132]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:418150]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:418156]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:418162]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:418168]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:418174]

The Catholic Standard and Times

1917 (2 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:391199]

1919 (2 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:422552]

1920 (25 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:429913]

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Non-Fiction

Guide to fortune-telling by dreams
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:422900]

Paratextual Materials

[62] p., “The Golden Grotto”, Happy Days story paper scrapbook

Happy Days story paper scrapbook
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:429532]

Periodicals

Comfort (3 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:424275]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:424317]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:425867]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:430054]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:430096]

The German Society of Pennsylvania

Front cover, Deutsch-Amerika, v.2, no. 2, January 8, 1916

Deutsch-Amerika

Deutsch-Amerika (1 issue added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:431218]

Roman Catholic High School Alumni Association

3 items added
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:206082]

Pennsylvaniana

Celeste A. Morello Collection

The Philadelphia Police’s Homicide Records: The First Decades of Investigating & Advancement
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:423157]

The Sicilian Colony, in Norristown, Pennsylvania
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:426223]

Reviewing Illicit Narcotics Use & Distribution in Philadelphia before the Involvement of Organized Crime
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:423142]

Philadelphia’s Lawful Mafiosi; A Review of Unconvicted Mafiosi
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:422447]

Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center

Historic Papers

Front cover, Dinner Menu, From: The Hibernian Society of Philadelphia’s 115th Anniversary Honoring the Governors of the Original Thirteen States, September 17, 1886

Catholic Club of Philadelphia Records, 1871-1923 (11 items added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:428999]

[Front menu], Printed. Invitation and Menu, To: Tenth Anniversary of the Catholic Club of Philadelphia : Banquet at Hotel Bellevue, Given in Honor of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, February 8, 1887