“U.S.S. Florida”, inside front cover, Scrapbook of Grady H. W. Lockhart, U.S. Marine in WWI

The heat is on! So take a moment to cool down with a refreshing spritz of reading materials, newly digitized for your consideration. Especially noteworthy is a scrapbook of a United States Marine serving seaside on the U.S.S. Florida during the Great War. More issues of the Gaelic Journal and two volumes of a rare engraved bible are among the other offerings for this week!

Dime novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

Diamond Dick’s Jr.’s, Durango Dozen; or, The vampires of Vallecita / by W. B. Lawson
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:457848]

Non-fiction

Volume of funny stories
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:457469]

Periodicals

Chicago Ledger (2 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:452925]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:463673]

Great War

Grady H. W. Lockhart, U.S. Marines WWI, photo 1, recto

Scrapbook of Grady H. W. Lockhart, U.S. Marine in WWI
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:464242]

Joseph McGarrity Collection

Newspaper

Detailed capital, selection [129] p., The Gaelic journal, v. XI, August, 1901, Whole Number 132

The Gaelic Journal (25 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:454352]

La Salle University

[47] p., the Holy Bible [v. 3: Psalms to Malachi] / ornamented with engravings by James Fittler

The Holy Bible, ornamented with engravings by James Fittler (2 volumes added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:464241]

Philadelphia Ceili Group

Evening Ceili (10 parts added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:464700]