p, 26, Historical Marker application documents, Philadelphia Historical Commission, Saint Leo the Great Roman Catholic Church, January 2019

Newly digitized offerings this week include a variety of materials. Especially noteworthy materials include: an atlas of Pennsylvania from the John F. Smith, III and Susan B. Smith Antique Map Collection, a significant number of story paper and newspaper issues, and nine applications for historical designation for church buildings in the city submitted to the Philadelphia Historical Commission. In addition, more historic Villanova basketball programs and the 1956 Belle Air yearbook are also available!

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

The Belle of Lynn; or, The miller’s daughter / by Charlotte M. Braeme
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:604107]

The Royal greens; or, The Scout of the Susquehanna : a tale of the valley of Wyoming / by Dr. J. H. Robinson
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:605323]

Paratextual Materials

Catalogue of Frank Tousey’s Popular Music
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:564114]

Periodials

The Independent, v. XLV, no. 2330, Thursday, July 27, 1893

The Independent (1 issue)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:589341]

Our Continent (5 issues)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:600981?lookfor=title%3Amarch]

Portland Transcript (7 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:590847]

Story Teller (4 issues)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:600977?lookfor=title%3Aaugust]

Youth’s Companion (4 issues)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:603964]

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

Plate 14, A geological hand atlas of the sixty-seven counties of Pennsylvania

A geological hand atlas of the sixty-seven counties of Pennsylvania
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:604364]

Joseph McGarrity Collection

Newspapers

Selection [1] p., The Gaelic American, v. II, No. 34, August 26, 1905

The Gaelic American (13 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:266848]

Pennsylvaniana

Celeste A. Morello Collection

p. 9, Historical Marker application documents, Philadelphia Historical Commission, Saint Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Church, May 2019

Historic designation applications (9 added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:603864]

Villanova Digital Collection

Yearbooks

p. 173, Belle Air, 1956

Belle Air 1956
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:603595]

Athletics

Basketball

Basketball Schedules (9 added from 1939-1985)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:598779]