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Content Roundup — December 2019

Photograph, Unidentified ship in dazzle camouflage, [1917-1918?], Photograph collection of Walter Timothy, Jr.

Newly digitized over the last few weeks are a host of new materials. Highlighted here are just a few of the items added recently, incluging more Dime Novels and Story Papers, a minute book from the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick, many maps from the John F. Smith, III and Susan B. Smith Antique Map Collection, a rare book on history of the Augustinians, more Basketball photographs, Basketball guidebooks, a rare collection of WWI photographs from an African-American sailor in the United States Navy, Walter Timothy, Jr., a rare European travel journal from 1821, more Suburban Wayne Edition newspaper issues as well as National Defender newspaper issues. Happy Holiday to all!

Contributions from Augustinian Theologians and Scholars

Title page, Historia del Convento de S. Augustin de Salamanca

Historia del Convento de S. Augustin de Salamanca
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:594826]

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

Turning a double trick; or, The Courage of a Bowery boy / by John R. Conway, private detective
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:594586]

Periodicals

Chicago Ledger, v. XXXVIII, no. 16, Saturday, April 16, 1910

Chicago Ledger (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:593352]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:596709]

New York Family Story Paper (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:570257]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:586397]

New York Ledger (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:598671]

Philadelphia Saturday Courier (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:591561]

Portland Transcript (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:588831?lookfor=title%3Ajanuary]

Saturday Night (3 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:584625]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:584637]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:584649]

Friendly Sons of St. Patrick

Minute Books

Rules Minutes &c. of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, 1889-1902
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:595767]

Great War

Photograph, Caruso and the Melville’s goats, [1917-1918?]

Photograph collection of Walter Timothy, Jr.
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:583730]

Historical Society of Montgomery County

National Defender (52 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:465299]

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

Africa mit seinen besundern Laendern, Thieren, und wunderbarlichen Dingen / Sebastian Munster

Africa mit seinen besundern Laendern, Thieren, und wunderbarlichen Dingen / Sebastian Munster
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:584503]

Senensis ditionis, accvrata descrip. ; Corsica ; Marcha Anconae, olim Picenvm. 1572
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:586469]

Carte de l’Asie Inferieure selon les auteurs anciens, enrichie de remarques historiques sur les changemens qui y sont arrivez
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:584481]

Nouvelle carte d’Ecosse : ou l’on fait observer l’etat de la noblesse; les villes, et les bourgs qui deputent au parlement, et diverses autres remarques propres a conduire a l’inteligence de l’histoire de ce royaume / [Henri Chatelain]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:584486]

Il Maryland, il Jersey Meridionale, la Delaware, e la parte orientales della Virginia, e Carolina Settentrionale
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:592160]

La Pensilvania, la Nuova York, il Jersey Settentrio:le, con la parte occidentale del Connecticut, Massachuset-s-bay e l’Irochesia
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:592166]

Penisola dell India di qua dal Gange : et Isole intorno ad essa adiacenti, descritta, et accresciuta di nuoue, e uarie notizie / da Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:586486]

Grenada divided into its parishes, / surveyed by order of his Excellence Governor Scott and engraved by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to the King
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:592155]

Partie de l’Amerique septentrionale
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:586481]

Brtiannicæ [sic] insulæ : in quibus Albium sive Britannia Maior Iuernia sive Britannia Minor tum et Orcades, Ebudes, Ca’ssiterides / aut N. Sanson Abbavillæo Christianiss. Galliarum regis geographo
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:586475]

A chart of North and South America : including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the nearest coasts of Europe, Africa and Asia
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:593902]

A new & accurate map of the seat of the late war in the West Indies : with a plan of the city and harbour of Havannah
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:594276]

Santander

Santander
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:579451]

A general mapp of the kingdom of Spaine / by Monsieur Sanson, geographer to the French king
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:579445]

A map of the most inhabited part of New England, containing the provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, with the colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island, divided into counties and townships
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:594288]

County map of the state of Pennsylvania : With inset maps of Harrisburg, Williamsport, Erie, and Scranton / drawn and engraved by W.H. Gamble, Philadelphia
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:584509]

Carte de l’isle de la Grenade, pour servir à l’histoire générale des voyages / par M.B., ingr. de la Me. 1758
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:594252]

Carte des isles des Vierges / par le Sr B. Ingenr. de la Marine. 1758
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:594264]

Radnor Historical Society

Suburban, Wayne Times Edition (18 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:581980]

Villanova Digital Collection

Athletics

Basketball images (26 added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:579126]

Front cover, Villanova College Basketball Facts, 31st Season, 1950-1951

Basketball Media Guides (8 added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:598054]

World

1 p. , Notes on the Tour …

Notes of a tour on the continent, 1821
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:592210]


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