Lithograph, Col. Michael Corcoran, Commanding the Sixty-ninth (Irish) Regiment. N.Y.S.M.

This week finds added content in many of the existing collections: new almanacs, new Dime Novel and story paper issues, new “National Defender” newspaper issues, and Villanova theses. But also take a moment to examine a brand new collection of important and very rare lithographs some from Currier & Ives.

Americana

Lithograph, Grand National Union Banner for 1860

Lithographs of Notable 19th Century Americans (Collection created, 13 images added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:486402]

The Waterford almanack for the year of our Lord 1807
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:485792]

Catholica

The Official Catholic Directory

The Metropolitan Catholic Almanac and Laity’s Directory for the year 1847
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:485826]

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

The Liberty Boys cornered; or, “Which way shall we turn?” / by Harry Moore
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:486563]

Periodicals

Chicago Ledger, v. XXX, no. 18, Saturday, May 3, 1902

Chicago Ledger (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:486090]

Grit (Story Section), v. 36, no. 19, Story Section no. 1212, April 7, 1918

Grit (3 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:390154]

The People’s Home Journal, v. IX, no. 9, September 1894

People’s Home Journal (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:485204]

Great War

“Huns Give Up / Reds Seize Berlin”- Extra issue, The Courier-Journal, Sunday November 10, 1918
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:485094]

Historical Society of Montgomery County

“First Execution in Mont. County”, selection [p. 1], National Defender, v. X [XI], no. 26, Tuesday, February 12, 1867

National Defender (19 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:465299]

Joseph McGarrity Collection

Newspapers

The Gaelic American (1907: 1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:458858]

Sherman-Thackara Collection

Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, [v. L, no. 1,286], May 22, 1880 (Featuring the Ellie Sherman and Alexander Thackara wedding)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:486654]

Villanova Digital Collection

Undergraduate Honors Theses (2017: 3 theses added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:486639]

Daily Doodles (2017: 1 image added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:469294]