p. 9, selection: “Ty Cobb, Superman”, Chicago Ledger, v. XLIV, no. 39, September 23, 1916

Spring has sprung – enjoy a host of newly digitized content available in the Digital Library this week. Highlights include: a new Mail Call podcast highlighting the Easter Rising, more newspaper and story paper issues, a manuscript of transcribed and annotated letters of Bishop Francis Patrick Kenrick, and 2 more extensive collections of Irish music from the Philadelphia Ceili Group.

Catholica

Bishop Kenrick collection

Title page

Manuscript Transcription, Letters of Francis Patrick Kenrick to George Allen Family, 1849-1863. Volume 1.
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:457523]

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

The secrets of the diamond island / by Frank R. Turner
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:457188]

[41] p.

Clear the way; or, The boys of Bear Hollow / by John Gordon
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:453695]

Clear grit; or, A young emigrant’s adventures / by Archie Van
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:453765]

Two brave boys; or, The mystery of the Great North Woods / by Dwight Weldon
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:456571]

[2] p.

Barefooted Ben; or, The boy who built a railroad / by Henry L. Black
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:456641]

Periodicals

Front cover, Chicago Ledger, v. XLIV, no. 39, September 23, 1916

Chicago Ledger (3 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:450779]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:451041]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:451062]

[1] p., The Wellspring for young people, v. LXXV, no. 51. December 12, 1918.

Wellspring for Young People (4 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:452994]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:452964]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:452974]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:452984]

Great War

Mail Call

Easter Rising 1916 (episode number 5)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:353234]

Historical Society of Montgomery County

[1] p., Olive Branch, v. 14, New Series, no. 52, Whole no. 721 [sic 720], April 29, 1856

Olive Branch (67 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:449227]

[1] p., New-York Weekly Tribune, v. XII, no. 580, October 23, 1852

New-York Weekly Tribune (6 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:457187]

Philadelphia Ceili Group

Sean Nós Singing (7 items added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:457786]

Songs About Women (9 items added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:457813]