A map of Pennsylvania exhibiting not only the improved parts of that Province, but also its extensive frontiers

Newly digitized this week are a host of new materials including the initial content from the latest Digital Library Partners: the MacSwiney Club and the Radnor Historical Society. Notable additions from these Partner’s include: a minute book from the Irish Club of Philadelphia from the 1880’s, and issues of the Weekly Wayne Gazette which covered the Wayne and Villanova environs in the 1870’s. Other noteworthy content this week include a 1775 map of Pennsylvania from the John F. Smith, III and Susan B. Smith Antique Map Collection, more Dime Novel and story paper issues, and more Irish music from the Philadelphia Ceili Group.

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

Cinderella
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565541]

Larry Murtagh’s desperate case; or, Tracing a remarkable abduction / by Bernard Wayde
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565794]

The House of fear; or, The Young duke’s strange quest / by “Old Sleuth”
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565057]

Periodicals

Chicago Ledger (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565004]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:566147]

Detail, p. [57], The flag of our Union, v. IX, no. 8, Saturday, February 25, 1854

Flag of Our Union (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:563539]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:563551]

International Weekly Illustrated Ladies’ Journal (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565137]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565903]

Detail, p. 5,Saturday Night, v. XXIII, no. 14, Saturday, December 5, 1885

Saturday Night (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565200]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:564122]

The John F. Smith, III and Susan B. Smith Antique Map Collection

A map of Pennsylvania exhibiting not only the improved parts of that Province, but also its extensive frontiers …, 1775:
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:566641]

MacSwiney Club

Irish American Club

Realia

3/4 view, Paper embosser, Irish American Club of Philadelphia, June 9, 1888

Paper embosser, Irish American Club of Philadelphia, June 9, 1888
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:566647]

Minute Books

3 p., Minute book, Irish American Club (Philadelphia, Pa.), March 4, 1888 – May 4, 1890

Minute book, Irish American Club (Philadelphia, Pa.), March 4, 1888 – May 4, 1890
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:566167]

Philadelphia Ceili Group

1978 Fall Festival (4 audio files added, completing Tapes 3 & 4)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565393]

Radnor Historical Society

Detail, p. [1], Weekly Wayne Gazette, v. 1, no. 15, September 2, 1871

Weekly Wayne Gazette (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:566692]

Villanova Digital Collection

2019 Undergraduate Honors Theses (5 added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565016]