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Frontispiece, "An Exact and true relation of the late plots which were contrived and hatched in Ireland..."

Frontispiece, “An Exact and true relation of the late plots which were contrived and hatched in Ireland…”

Quite a few newly digitized items are available this week for your reading pleasure. Noteworthy items include: issues of an early Norristown newspaper – the “National Defender”, a set of printed stereograms narrating the story of a U.S. soldier during the Great War; a rare 1641 pamphlet from the Joseph McGarrity collection, and a number of new story paper issues and dime novels.

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

Front cover

Front cover

The surgeon’s daughter / by Sir Walter Scott
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:457081]

The tattooed hand; or, A strange story of sea and land / by Ed. King
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:457293]

Front cover

Front cover

Tangled lives : a novel / by “Theron”
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:465023]

Periodicals

[1] p., Chicago Ledger, v. XXVI, no. 50, Wednesday, December 14, 1898

[1] p., Chicago Ledger, v. XXVI, no. 50, Wednesday, December 14, 1898

Chicago Ledger (7 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:456521]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:464834]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:456546]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:464893]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:464911]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:464929]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:464939]

Great War

"1. The Soldier"

“1. The Soldier”

Stereogram set, The Soldier to His Own Fireside
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:464968]

Historical Society of Montgomery County

Masthead, National Defender

Masthead, National Defender

National Defender (collection created and 20 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:465299]

Joseph McGarrity Collection

Books

An Exact and true relation of the late plots which were contrived and hatched in Ireland
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:464958]

Philadelphia Ceili Group

Brendan Mulvihill and Donna Long (5 sets added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:465300]

Mark Carroll (7 sets added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:465326]

[1] p., Chicago Ledger, v. XLV, no. 19, May 12, 1917

[1] p., Chicago Ledger, v. XLV, no. 19, May 12, 1917


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