[45] p., World War I souvenir hospital album, 1918-1919

This week we again offer a significant amount of freshly digitized materials from Distinctive Collections for your research consideration. Especially noteworthy are the many Dime Novels, the early newspaper and popular periodical issues, as well as the Villanova College catalogue from 100 years ago (see how much has changed!), the Sesquicentennial Edition from 1993 of the Villanova University Student History Journal, a host of Villanova athletics photographs, a rare illustrated puppet play by Jack B. Yeats, and a artist’s sketchbook filled with drawings and paintings from recovering patients injured in the Great War.

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

The doctor, his wife and the clock / by Anna Katharine Green
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:627353]

Ugly-Ike : a tale of wild adventures in the backwoods
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:633543]

Fire Cloud, or, The mysterious cave : a story of Indians and pirates
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:633648]

The electric man in the enchanted valley; or, The wonderful adventures of two boy inventors / by the author of the “Wreck of the ‘Glaucus.'”

Brave and Bold Series (10 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:629848]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:629888]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:630036]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:630076]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:630116]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:631006]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:631046]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:631086]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:631126]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:631166]

Periodicals

Portland Transcript (3 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:622648?lookfor=november]

Boys’ World (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:625559]

Saturday Night, v. XXXIV, no. 29, Saturday, March 6, 1897

Saturday Night (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:633849]

Great War

[5] p., World War I souvenir hospital album, 1918-1919

World War I souvenir hospital album, 1918-1919
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:630759]

Joseph McGarrity Collection

Books

The scourge of the gulph / Jack B. Yeats

The scourge of the gulph / Jack B. Yeats
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:633159]

Villanova Digital Collection

Magazines, Newsletters, and Journals

The Villanova University Student History Journal (1993: 1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:634604]

University Catalogues

Seventy-Seventh Catalogue of Villanova College, Villanova, Delaware Co., Pa. conducted by the Augustinian Fathers for the academic year 1920-1921
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:634690]

Photographs and Illustrations

Photograph, Baseball Team (Varsity), 1906

Baseball Team (Varsity), 1906
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:633868]

Photograph, Football Team (Varsity), undated.

Football Team (Varsity), undated
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:633874]

Football Team (Varsity), undated
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:633880]

Football (Varsity), undated
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:633886]

Photograph, Villanova Preparatory Squad, 1909

Villanova Preparatory Squad, 1909
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:633892]

[48-49] p., World War I souvenir hospital album, 1918-1919.