Inside angled view, Bertha Clay cigar box, ca. 1910

Newly digitized this week are a number of materials, including more issues of the Records of the American Catholic Historical Society, more story paper issues, a program from the 5th annual Villanova Jazz festival from 1965, and a remarkable wooden cigar box featuring imagery of the dime novel author Bertha Clay.

American Catholic Historical Society

Front cover, Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia. Volume XXIX, No. 4, December, 1918. Pages [289]-384

Records

Volume 28 (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:520328]

Volume 29 (3 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:522441]

Volume 30 (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:523320]

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Non-Fiction

History and souvenir of the Johnstown flood, scenographic reproduction at Surf Avenue and Seventeenth street, Coney Island, N.Y.
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:523298]

Paratextual Materials

Bertha Clay cigar box
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:522802]

Periodicals

Chicago Ledger, v. XXXIII, no. 13, Saturday, April 1, 1905

Chicago Ledger (1 issue)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:522183]

Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner, v. VIII, no. 186, December 10,1868

Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner (1 issue)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:522810]

The Household, v. 16, no. 8, August, 1916

The Household (1 issue)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:521973]

Our young folks’ illustrated paper, v. II, no. 8, January 15, 1873

Our Young Folks’ Illustrated Paper (1 issue)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:521499]

Street and Smith’s New York Weekly : a journal of useful knowledge, romance, amusement, & c. , v. XXVIII, no. 12, January 27, 1873

Street & Smith’s New York Weekly (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:521706]

Villanova Digital Collection

[6] p., Program, The Fifth Annual Intercollegiate Jazz Festival.

Program, The Fifth Annual Intercollegiate Jazz Festival
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:523268]