Content Roundup – Second Week – November 2017
This week’s worth of newly digitized content includes a visit to the circus, with photographs from the Miller’s Mechanical Shows and Dime Novel fiction capturing life under the big top! Other new content this week include rare story paper supplements from the Chicago Ledger, more issues of the National Defender newspaper and the scrapbook of Norman A. Payne, a WWI United States Engineer fighting in Europe one hundred years ago!
Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Fiction
The Bradys with a circus; or, On the road with the wild-beast tamers / by a New York detective
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:494567]
The Bradys in Wyoming; or, Tracking the mountain men : a marvelous detective story / by a New York detective
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:495032]
Under the Polar Star; or, The young explorers / by Dwight Weldon
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:495525]
Old Broadbrim in a deep-sea struggle; or, A helping hand from Nick Carter / by the author of “Old Broadbrim.”
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:493240]
Periodicals
Chicago Ledger (3 supplements)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:498763]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:497918]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:498753]
Chimney Corner (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:494447]
People’s Home Journal (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:498833]
Great War
Scrapbook, Norman A. Payne, WWI US Engineer, 1917-1918
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:498686]
Millers Mechanical Shows Papers
Travel and Tourism (10 images added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:490758]
Other acts (16 images added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:490588]
Historical Society of Montgomery County
National Defender (7 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:465299]
Villanova Digital Collection
Athletics
Podcast, History of Athletics at Villanova – The Early Years
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:499141]
Falvey Memorial Library
Daily Doodles 2017 (1 image added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:469294]
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