[1] p., Catholic Almanac for 1846

As the old year ends and the new year begins, take time to reflect upon some of the treasures of the past including a host of newly digitized historic popular literature titles including the fictional work “The Man” by Elbert Hubbard, published under the pen name Aspasia Hobbs, which tells the “true” story of the then 300-year-old Shakespeare living in a log cabin in the woods outside of Buffalo.

Catholica

The Official Catholic directory  (1846 volume added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:424829]

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

Front cover, The senator’s bride / by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller

The senator’s bride / by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:440123]

Front cover (selection), The man : a story of to-day : with facts, fancies and faults peculiarly its own

The man: a story of to-day: with facts, fancies and faults peculiarly its own: containing certain truths heretofore unpublished concerning right relation of the sexes, etc., etc. / by Aspasia Hobbs
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:439628]

Front cover, A dangerous flirtation; or, Did Ida May sin? / by Miss Laura Jean Libbey

A dangerous flirtation; or, Did Ida May sin? / by Miss Laura Jean Libbey
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:439857]

Front cover, The Brighton boys at St. Mihiel / by Lieutenant James R. Driscoll

The Brighton boys at St. Mihiel / by Lieutenant James R. Driscoll
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:440942]

Front cover, Old Sleuth’s triumph; or, The great Bronx mystery / by “Old Sleuth”

Old Sleuth Library (9 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:438824]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:438862]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:438900]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:439246]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:439558]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:437298]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:438748]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:438786]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:437260]

Non-Fiction

Front cover, How to tell fortunes : containing Napoleon’s Oraculum

How to tell fortunes : containing Napoleon’s Oraculum and the key to work it : also tells fortunes by cards, lucky and unlucky days, signs and omens
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:441363]

Periodicals

[1] p., Happy days, v. XXX, no. 780, September 25, 1909

Happy Days (16 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:434548]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:434566]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:434584]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:434602]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:434620]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:435605]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:435623]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:435641]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:435659]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:435677]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:435695]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:435713]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:434638]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:435731]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:435749]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:434530]

The Young Men of America (1 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:441344]

German Society of Pennsylvania

[1] p., Deutsch-Amerika, v.2, no. 52, December 23, 1916

Deutsch-Americka (40 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:428065]

Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center

Historic Papers

Catholic Club of Philadelphia Records, 1871-1923 (52 items added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:428999]

Villanova Digital Collection

Falvey Memorial Library

Daily Doodles

Daily Doodle, “Stephen Hawking 71st birthday”, January 8, 2013

2013 (4 added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:441442]

2015 (7 added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:415994]

Van Houten’s Cocoa Ad, Inside Front cover, “The Man”.