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

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

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

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”

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

Historical Society of Montgomery County

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