p. 20, recto: “Tusko”, Photograph album, Notable Circuses & Carnivals, 1918-1926

This week we feature two newly digitized circus photograph albums from the Great War collection of the Millers Mechanical Shows. Other new content includes more Dime Novel and Story paper issues, vintage holiday photographs of the Villanova campus, and a short biography of St. Nicholas of Tolentine with a notable frontispiece engraving.

Contributions from Augustinian Theologians and Scholars

Title page, verso

Vita gloriosissima et miracoli eccelsi del beato confessore Santo Nicola di Tolentino : raccolta da gli antichi originali / per Ambrogio Frigerio di Bassano
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:492829]

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

Old Broadbrim in a race for life; or, A thirteen-day fight / by a celebrated author
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:493202]

The Bradys after the tattooed man; or, Running down a crimson clew and other stories / by a New York detective
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:491979]

Periodicals

Chicago Ledger, v. XXXI, no. 28, Saturday, July 11, 1903

Chicago Ledger (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:489827]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:492498]

Golden Days : for Boys and Girls, v. I, no. 3, March 20, 1880

Golden Days (index + 3 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:493279]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:493291]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:493309]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:493327]

Grit (Story Section), v. 37, no. 50, November 9, 1919

Grit (13 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:489886]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:490204]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:493020]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:491411]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:491437]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:492017]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:491463]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:492043]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:492472]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:492069]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:492316]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:492420]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:492342]

The People’s Home Journal, v. XV, no. 3, March 1900

People’s Home Journal (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:489533]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:489747]

Great War

Millers Mechanical Shows Papers

Photographs (4 added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:490587]

Travel and Tourism

Photograph album, Notable Circuses & Carnivals, 1918-1926
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:493447]

[7], recto, Photograph album, Rubin & Cherry Shows

Photograph album, Rubin & Cherry Shows
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:493345]

Villanova Digital Collection

Photographs and illustrations

3, recto

Photographs, Villanova University ‘s Christmas Tree Lighting, 1999
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:494102]

“Spreading Joy,” Belle Air, 1950, p. 50-51
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:494112]

“Coming Together,” Belle Air, 2010-2011, p. 162-163
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:494115]

“Holiday Cheer,” Belle Air, 2000, p. 32-33
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:494118]