Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner, v. XVI, no. 391, November 23, 1872

Happy New Year and salutations of the season to all! This multi-week content roundup covers the end of December and this first week of January 2019. A host of new story-paper and newspaper issues are available, as well as two additional volumes from the Independence Seaport Museum’s Philadelphia Maritime Exchange Collection. Other highlights include the Belle Air from 1948 and Villanova Commencement Programs from 1901 through 1919.

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

The Dairyman’s daughter : a narrative of facts / by Rev. Legh Richmond
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:537936]

Ursula’s girlhood
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:540278]

The mystery of a Turkish bath / by “Rita.”
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:535999]

Cavalry Jack; or, The scout at Shiloh / by Col. Ralph Fenton
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:537012]

Mad Mike : or, The death shot / by L. Augustus Jones
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:538696]

Periodicals

The People’s Home Journal, v. XXIV, no. 9, September 1909

People’s Home Journal (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:543896]

Street and Smith’s New York Weekly : a journal of useful knowledge, romance, amusement, & c. , v. XXVIII, no. 38, July 28, 1873

New York Weekly (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:544040]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:543992]

Chicago Ledger, v. XXXV, no. 23, Saturday, June 8, 1907

Chicago Ledger (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:541884]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:543952]

[33] p., Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner, v. XVI, no. 393, December 7, 1872

Chimney Corner (26 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:331826]

[97] p., Golden Days : for Boys and Girls, v. I, no. 7, April 17, 1880

Golden Days (2 issues added):
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:543763]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:543783]

The Soldiers’ and sailors’ half dime magazine, v. 2, no. 6, 1868

The Soldiers’ and sailors’ half dime magazine (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:536972]

Independence Seaport Museum

Philadelphia Maritime Exchange Collection

p. 1, Arrivals Foreign and Coastwise, Volume 1, April 1, 1875 – October 12, 1875

Series 1: Volumes containing information on Arrivals and Clearances (v.1 and v.3 added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:544340]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:544957]

Montgomery County Historical Society

National Defender (33 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:465299]

Villanova Digital Collection

Commencement

Villanova Commencement Programs (19 programs added, 1901-1919)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:523674]

Yearbooks

[2] p., Belle Air

Belle Air, 1948
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:544052]