Photograph, Basketball (Varsity), NCAA Championship Team and President Ronald Reagan at the White House, 1985

For your reading and research pleasure this week we offer a number of newly digitized materials. Especially noteworthy are additional Villanova basketball photographs including the 1985 NCAA championship team, some very early story paper issues, and the newly acquired Astronomical Observations manuscript penned by the noted American writer H.P. Lovecraft.

Americana

H.P. Lovecraft Collection

[17] p. ; Astronomical observations

Astronomical observations / made by H.P. Lovecraft, 598, Angell St, Providence, R.I. U.S.A. years 1909-1915
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:593162]

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

The red scourge; or, How Morgan, the buccaneer, stormed the citadel / by an old salt
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:588026]

Periodicals

Boston Weekly Magazine (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:589417]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:589425]

Chicago Ledger, v. XXXVIII, no. 9, Saturday, February 26, 1910

Chicago Ledger (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:591497]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:591517]

The Evening fire-side, or Weekly intelligence in the civil, natural, moral, literary and religious worlds, v. I, no. 19, seventh-day, 20th of fourth month, 1805

Evening Fire-side (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:582149]

The Graphic : an illustrated weekly newspaper, v. XVIII, no. 457, Saturday, August 31, 1878

The Graphic (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:583918]

Philadelphia Saturday Courier (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:591569]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:585462]

The Portland transcript, v. XIV, no. 27, October 19, 1850

Portland Transcript (3 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:592014]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:592026]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:592038]

The weekly museum, v. XVI, no. 15, [whole] no. 796, Saturday, April 14, 1804

Weekly Museum (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:582133]

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

A map of the country from Rariton River in East Jersey, to Elk Head in Maryland: shewing the several operations of the American & British armies, in 1776 & 1777 / Neele sc., Strand
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:584497]

Philadelphia Ceili Group

Fall Festival 1982, Tape #7, Side One
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:593584]

Villanova Digital Collection

Photograph, Basketball (Varsity), Rollie Massimino, Head Coach, 1980

Basketball Images (13 images added, including the 1985 NCAA championship team)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:579126]

Falvey Memorial Library

Mosaic: News from Falvey Memorial Library (Fall 2019 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:592895]