Masthead detail, Star spangled banner, v. V, no. 43, Saturday, July 12, 1851

This week’s newly digitized content includes two scrapbook advertisements for the upcoming fall scrapbook exhibit, a new audio performance from the Philadelphia Ceili Group, the completion of all extant issues of the Weekly Wayne Gazette from the Radnor Historical Society, and number of other story paper issues, including one from the ultra rare Star Spangled Banner.

Americana

Detail, p. 28

Advertising leaf, from a 1901-1902 trade catalog of A.C. McClurg & Co.
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:570283]

Trade card for F. Trifet, dealer in scrap book pictures and fancy cards
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:570370]

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Periodicals

Detail, p. [1], Chicago Ledger, v. XXVI, no. 45, Wednesday, November 9, 1898

Chicago Ledger (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565749]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565761]

Detail, p. [137], The flag of our Union, v. IX, no. 18, Saturday, May 6, 1854

Flag of Our Union (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:567873]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:567885]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:567897]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:567909]

International Weekly Illustrated Ladies’ Journal (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565983]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:567611]

Detail, p. [1], Saturday Night, v. XII, no. 44, Saturday July 17, 1875

Saturday Night (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:569557]

Star Spangled Banner (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:570166]

Masthead detail, The Yankee blade, v. IX, no. 10, Saturday, October 27, 1849

Yankee Blade (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:570237]

Radnor Historical Society

Masthead detail, Weekly Wayne Gazette, v. 1, no. 52, June 22, 1872

Weekly Wayne Gazette (20 issues added, completing digitization of all available issues)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:566692]

Philadelphia Ceili Group

Tulla Ceili Band, hosted by the Philadelphia Ceili Group at the Commodore Barry Club in Philadelphia on September 17, 1982 (1 file)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:570467]