Negative, Basketball (Kenneth A. Harrison, No. 5), 1957

Newly digitized and available this week are a number of important resources. Notable materials include: over 100 photographic negatives depicting Villanova varsity basketball players and coaches, an atlas of the United States from 1870 from the John F. Smith, III and Susan B. Smith Antique Map Collection, a history of the early years of philanthropic work from the Society of The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick for The Relief of Emigrants from Ireland Collection, early issues of the rare Pennsylvania newspaper the Hanover Spectator, and rounding out this week’s offerings, yet more Dime Novels and story paper issues.

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

The Indian spirit, or, Perils of the border : a story of Indian warfare / by Arthur L. Meserve (from Beadle’s Frontier Series)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:615319]

Periodicals

The Boys’ world, v. 21, no. 21, May 27, 1922

Boys’ World (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:603166?lookfor=title%3Amay]

Chicago Ledger, v. XXXVIII, no. 39, Saturday, September 24, 1910

Chicago Ledger (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:615894]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:615914]

Good Stories, v. XXX, no. 3, Old Series no. 351, June 1913

Good Stories (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:615423]

p. 6, Happy hours, v. XXX, no. 6, Whole no. 455, October 1908

Happy Hours (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:615451]

Portland Transcript (5 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:590827?lookfor=title%3Ajanuary]

The Story teller, v. I, no. 31, November 27, 1898

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

Newspapers

Detail, [1] p., Hanover spectator, v. 4, no. 17, Wednesday morning, February 2, 1848

Hanover Spectator (9 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:571385]

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

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

Statistical atlas of the United States : based on results of the ninth census 1870 with contributions from many eminent men of science and several departments of the government, 1874
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:611320]

The Society of The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick for The Relief of Emigrants from Ireland

Front cover

History of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick for the relief of emigrants from Ireland of Philadelphia : March 17, 1771-March 17, 1892
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:604697]

Villanova Digital Collection

Athletics

Basketball

Front cover, Villanova University Basketball Brochure, 1975-1976

Villanova Basketball Media Guides (3 added, for seasons 1974-1977)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:598054]

Negative, Basketball (Studio Set-Up), 1956

Varsity basketball images (110 added from the Villanova University Negatives Collection, 1948-1958)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:579126]