Content Roundup – Second and Third Weeks – October 2018
This double-dose of newly digitized content includes a host of dime novels and story paper issues, a newly acquired photo album from a Nurse, more commencement programs, 4 Belle Air yearbooks, and a scrapbook of John F. Ballier, which includes a signed letter from Abraham Lincoln. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War in April 1861, Ballier formed the 21st Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers for three months’ service, holding the rank of Colonel. When, at the expiration of that term, he was ordered to recruit a regiment for three years’ service, he organized the 98th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. Fighting with the 98th in the Battle of Fort Stevens, Washington, D. C., 12 July 1864, he was wounded (for the second time in the war) and was visited afterwards by President Lincoln, who conferred upon him the rank of Brevet Brigadier General.
Americana
Photographic Album, Nurse’s Album of Work and Family Trip
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:536055]
Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Fiction
The young mountaineer / by Col. Prentiss Ingraham
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:533974]
Periodicals
Chicago Ledger (2 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:533122]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:533142]
Chimney Corner (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:529907]
Fortune Finder (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:533322]
LeBlanc Bibliography (22 PDFs added or updated in these 2 items)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:533948]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:287327]
People’s Home Journal (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:532554]
The German Society of Pennsylvania
Scrapbook of John F. Ballier, circa 1831-1889
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:535512]
Villanova Digital Collection
Commencement
Programs (6 added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:523674]
Yearbooks
Belle Air 1943
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:534238]
Belle Air 1950
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:534579]
Belle Air 1951
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:534834]
Belle Air 1967
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:535057]
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