Front cover, Old Broadbrim revealing a double life; or, The clew of the blood-stained paper

This double-week update brings to your attention the latest digitized content, including over 50 issues of the rare newspaper “The National Defender”, 2 photograph albums from the Millers Mechanical Shows papers, and new Story Paper and Dime Novel issues!

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

The rock rider; or, The spirit of the Sierra : a tale of three parks / by Captain Frederick Whittaker
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:494465]

[2] p., “Sidney held the oars. Tom raised the rifle,” Out West; or, Pioneer boys of Sun Prairie / by Henry A. Wheeler

Out West; or, Pioneer boys of Sun Prairie / by Henry A. Wheeler
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:493056]

Old Broadbrim revealing a double life; or, The clew of the blood-stained paper / by the author of “Old Broadbrim”
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:493913]

The Bradys defied; or, The hardest gang in New York / by a New York detective
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:494231]

Periodicals

Grit (Story Section), v. 38, no. 13, February 29, 1920

Grit (2 issues)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:492446]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:492571]

Front cover, Chicago Ledger, v. XXXI, no. 40, Saturday, October 3, 1903

Chicago Ledger (2 issues):
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:496160]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:492552]

Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner, v. I, no. 20, October 14, 1865

Chimney Corner (2 issues)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:494139]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:495950]

Great War

Millers Mechanical Shows Papers

Travel and Tourism

[1, verso], “Lachman-Carson Show”

Photograph album, Lachman-Carson Show
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:494916]

Photograph album, Miller’s Mechanical Battlefield
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:495302]

Other Acts

Photograph, “Hart & Conly,” West Palm Beach Landing
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:495673]

Photograph, “Happy & Barney”
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:495669]

Historical Society of Montgomery County

National Defender, v. XV, no. 29, Tuesday, February 28, 1871

National Defender (54 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:465299]