Content Roundup – Third Week – May 2016
Map, The Madras New Almanac : general directory and register for 1838
This week finds a number of new treasures digitized, and now available for your reading and research needs. Noteworthy materials include: issues of the early Boston published Irish language journal “The Irish Echo”, a very early almanac from Madras (now Chennai) India with colorful maps and plates for the year 1838, two American photographic albums showing the efforts of families to document their vacation and domestic travels in the 1910’s with snapshots, and a new musical “Sing-Along” set from the Philadelphia Ceili Group.
Americana
![[2] p., Photograph album of Wisconsin family, 1914-1920](https://blog.library.villanova.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/train1.jpg)
[2] p., Photograph album of Wisconsin family, 1914-1920
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:461886]
![[10] p., Photograph album New York State Fair, 1907](https://blog.library.villanova.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/race1.jpg)
[10] p., Photograph album New York State Fair, 1907
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:462662]
Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Fiction
Harpoon Harry; or, Castaways of the Antarctic / by L. Philips
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:457255]
Fighting the savages; or, The pearl of the Pacific / by Frank R. Turner
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:457028]
Non-Fiction
Spiritualism exposed
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:462786]
Periodicals
Selection, front cover, Chicago Ledger, v. XLIV, no. 53, December 30, 1916
Chicago Ledger (2 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:456500]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:451083]
Joseph McGarrity Collection
Newspapers
![[33] p., The Irish Echo, v. IV, no. 3, June 1893](https://blog.library.villanova.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/echo1.jpg)
[33] p., The Irish Echo, v. IV, no. 3, June 1893
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:462101]
Philadelphia Ceili Group
Sing-Along (13 parts added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:460257]
World
“Geometrical Projection of a Lunar Eclipse in the month of October 1838”, Plate, recto; he Madras New Almanac, 1838
The Madras New Almanac : general directory and register for 1838
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:462053]
Around the world / by Rev. J. T. Roche, LLD.
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:461211]
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