Content Roundup – Mid-June – 2021
This double week Content Roundup features the most recent content digitized from Distinctive Collections including two memorial textiles created from materials produced by American Civil War veteran organizations, a rare pamphlet on the influenza epidemic of 1889-90 in Ireland from the Joseph McGarrity Collection, as well as more Dime Novels and story papers and several longer transcriptions added to existing digitized content.
Americana
War of the Rebellion

Realia, handmade tapestry of Civil War reunion ribbons for 74th Indiana Infantry Regiment
Realia, handmade tapestry of Civil War reunion ribbons for 74th Indiana Infantry Regiment
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:650492]

Realia, handmade tapestry of ribbons for the Woman’s Relief Corps Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic
Realia, handmade tapestry of ribbons for the Woman’s Relief Corps Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:650486]
Dime Novels and Popular Literature
Fiction

Tom Wright’s pluck; or, Under the leadership of Bobbie Skylark / by Robert Steel
Comrades (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:650640]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:650600]

Diamond Dick, Jr.’s desperate drop; or, Run down on the Limited / by W. B. Lawson
Diamond Dick, Jr. (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:642447]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:650171]
The book worm, September 1901
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:648227]
Jesse James with Quantrell, the guerilla, on his last ride; or, The fall of the scarlet flag / by D. W. Stevens
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:648111]
Periodicals

Detail p. [97], The Weekly novelette, v. IV, no. 7, Saturday, October 30, 1858
Weekly Novelette (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:648688]
Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:650209]

Detail p. [1], The New York Ledger, v. XXVIII, no. 7, April 6, 1872
New York Ledger (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:648159]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:650041]

Detail p. [1], Philadelphia home weekly, v. XXIV, no. 24, June 6, 1866
Philadelphia Home Weekly (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:649793]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:649801]
Portland Transcript (8 issues)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:649817?lookfor=title%3Ajuly]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:649817?lookfor=title%3Aaug]

Detail p. 5, Saturday Night, v. VI, no. 7, Saturday, November 7, 1868
Saturday Night (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:649182]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:650073]
Joseph McGarrity
Books

Plate III, The Influenza Epidemic 1889-90 as observed in Dublin / by John William Moore
The Influenza Epidemic 1889-90 as observed in Dublin / by John William Moore
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:651034]
Newspapers
The Irishman (10 issues added July-September 1918)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:615318]
Papers
Columbia Travel Narrative, Joseph McGarrity, 1927 (transcription finalized)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:134770]
Villanova Digital Collection
The Voices of Villanova’s Veterans
Interview with William P. Bonelli, March 19, 2019 (transcription added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:575376]
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