Detail p. 1, Color cover illustration: “The Volcano of Vesuvius in Eruption”, Saturday Globe, v. 18, no. 20, Saturday, October 1, 1898

This double week Content Roundup features the most recent content digitized from Distinctive Collections including a number of treasures including an early survey of the land that will become Villanova College, the first known Alumni Association minute book as well as more Dime Novels and story papers. Notable as well are issues of the Saturday Globe newspaper reputed to be the first United States national newspaper; this Utica New York published weekly newspaper also was one of the first to regularly feature a full color cover illustration on the front page, often graphically portraying an event such as a disaster or war (note the above illustration of the then current eruption of Vesuvius).

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

Front cover, An enemy to the rescue; or, Trooper Phil’s narrow escape / by Beverley Kennon

Red, White & Blue (3 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:643609]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:642260]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:643463]

Diamond Dick, Jr. (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:640990]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:641152]

Neva’s choice : a sequel to “Neva’s three lovers” / by Mrs. Harriet Lewis
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:643198]

Frank Merriwell on the road : or, The show that broke records / by Burt L. Standish
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:645960]

Periodicals

Boys’ World (3 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:642607]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:642619]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:642631]

Portland Transcript (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:642667]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:642679]

Front cover, Illustrated Sunday Magazine of the Denver Republican, December 25, 1910

Illustrated Sunday Magazine of the Denver Republican (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:646194]

New York Ledger (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:646275]

Detail p. 1, Saturday Night, v. V, no. 42, Saturday, July 11, 1868

Saturday Night (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:646239]

Masthead, Sporting Item, v.1, no. 7, March 19, 1892

Sporting Item (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:645942]

The illustrated police news, law courts and weekly record (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:645866]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:645886]

Weekly Novelette (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:642751]

Newspapers

Front cover detail, “The Battle of Vinegar Hill”, Saturday Globe, v. 17, no. 40, Saturday, February 19, 1898

Saturday Globe (7 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:646198]

Villanova Digital Collection

p. 1, “February 15, 1856”, Jug Book

Jug Book, Recordings of Students’ Misconduct, 1856
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:644711]

Detail 1 p., Minute Book Villanova Alumni Association

Alumni Association book, 1875-1885
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:644131]

Survey, Draft of a Plantation late the Estate of John Rudolph

Survey, Draft of a Plantation late the Estate of John Rudolph decd. situate in Radnor Township, Delaware County, Surveyed Nov. 1, 1839
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:643603]

Enrollment Management Records, 1855-2008

List of Students, classes, and examinations, 1866-1867
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:642832]

List of students, 1868-1870

List of Students, 1868-1870
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:642888]

University Catalogues

Villanova College Bulletin, Saturday Morning Session, 1936-37, v. 62, no. 3, part 3, September 1936
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:645661]

Bulletin of Villanova University, Graduate and Part-time Sessions, 1955-1956
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:645683]

Bulletin of Villanova University, Graduate and Part-time Sessions, 1956-1957
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:645734]