Content Roundup – Fourth Week – June 2018

Front cover “Despotism against Democracy” – James M. Flagg, Leslie’s illustrated weekly newspaper, v. 124, no. 3217, May 3, 1917
Keep your cool: take a break from the heat, grab a chilled drink, and take a look at some of the newly digitized materials added this week. Notable additions include WWI era issues of Leslie’s weekly illustrated newspaper, a now-rare illustrated news magazine, featuring highly sensational and propagandistic full color covers by some of the most iconic artists of the time, such as James M. Flagg and, later, Norman Rockwell. As well a host of new story paper issues and two Belle Air yearbooks, from 1944 and ’45, round out this weeks offerings!
Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Periodicals

Boys of America : stories of romance and adventure, v. I, no. 25, March 22, 1902
Boys of America (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:524664]

Chicago Ledger, v. XXXIII, no. 26, Saturday, July 1, 1905
Chicago Ledger (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:523892]

Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner, v. IV, no. 84, January 5, 1867
Chimney Corner (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:522828]

Comfort, v. XXXIV, no. 7, May 1922
Comfort (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:522153]

Street and Smith’s New York Weekly : a journal of useful knowledge, romance, amusement, & c. , v. XXVIII, no. 15, February 17, 1873
New York Weekly (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:521746]

Our young folks’ illustrated paper, v. II, no. 13, April 1, 1873
Our Young Folks’ Illustrated Paper (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:521826]
Great War

Front cover “Get off that Throne” – James M. Flagg, Leslie’s illustrated weekly newspaper, v. 125, no. 3251, December 29th, 1917
Leslie’s illustrated weekly newspaper (8 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:524562]
Villanova Digital Collection
Yearbooks

[2-3] p., Belle Air 1944
Belle air, 1944
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:524293]

[2-3] p., Belle Air 1945
Belle air, 1945
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:524718]
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