Content Roundup – Second Week – August 2017

Broadside, “A Modern Battle Portrayed in Miniature …”
This week finds a host of new and remarkable content including the first materials from two new Great War collections (Millers Mechanical Shows Papers and the papers of Irish prisoner of war Arthur Evanson Glanville), also the first minute book of the the Society of The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick from 1771 with signatures from the initial membership including John Barry and the acceptance of General Washington to the Society! And more Dime Novel and Story Paper issues too!
Dime Novel and Popular Literature Collection
Fiction
The Bradys under fire; or, Tracking a gang of outlaws / by a New York detective
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:489559]
Periodicals

Chicago Ledger, v. XXXI, no. 12, Saturday, March 21, 1903
Chicago Ledger (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:488875]

Grit (Story Section), v. 36, no. 10, Story Section no. 1203, February 3, 1918
Grit (3 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:487789]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:487815]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:487373]

The People’s Home Journal, v. X, no. 5, May 1895
People’s Home Journal (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:488805]
Great War

Photograph, 3-person cart act, [1920?].
Millers Mechanical Shows Papers (collection created, 6 items added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:490587]

Telegram, “Second Lieut A E Glanville Dublin Fusiliers Reported Wounded and Missing,” June 8, 1918
Arthur Evanson Glanville, papers, 1916-1918 (collection created, 7 items added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:489954]
Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center
Historic Papers
World War I — War Records (33 cards added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:459489]
The Society of The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick for The Relief of Emigrants from Ireland
Minute Books

[5] p., “Signature page of founding members”, Rules Minutes &c. of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick
Rules Minutes &c. of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, 1843, 1771-1793
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:489955]
Villanova Digital Collection
Daily Doodles (2017: 1 image added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:487897]
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