Recently added to the digital library, on offer are more story paper issues, more dime novels, and materials of note including 7 manuscript notebooks of the American popular author Annie Tuttle, 5 notebooks of the poetry and diary entries from James Roger, items from the “Remember the Maine” collection, and photographs from the University Archives collections documenting student and university activities!

Americana

Notebook, “Songs Freedom’s Emblem” / Annie L.Tuttle

Annie L. Tuttle papers (7 notebooks):
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:684371?recordID=vudl%3A688554]

Historical Sketch From the Destruction of the “Maine” to the Battle of Manila : a short history in memory of the lost heros of the “Maine” / by Otto Volckmer

Remember the Maine Collection (12 items added):
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:684698]

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

Nick Carter and Keno M’Call, or, The fate of a stool pigeon / edited by Chickering Carter.

Nick Carter Stories (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:627425?lookfor=series%3A%5B30+TO+34%5D]

Old Broadbrim (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:287323?recordID=vudl%3A694970]

Sweet love’s atonement : a novel / by Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth.

Sweet love’s atonement : a novel / by Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:693673]

Periodicals

Golden Era (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:689499?lookfor=title%3Afebruary]

New York Ledger (5 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:688217?lookfor=title%3Ajune]

Street and Smith’s New York Weekly : a journal of useful knowledge, romance, amusement, & c. , v. 49, no. 21, March 17, 1894

New York Weekly (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:690769]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:690781]

Weekly Novelette (5 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:687791?lookfor=title%3Aoctober]

Villanova Digital Collection

University Functions

Photograph, Black Cultural Society Award, 1981

Photograph, Black Cultural Society Award, 1981
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:656426]

Photograph, Black Cultural Society, 1983-1984
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:656324]

Photograph, Black Cultural Society, 1983-1984
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:656330]

Photograph, Villanova Band, 1940s

Villanova Band (12 photos added):
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:649898?type=AllFields&filter%5B%5D=topic_facet%3A%22Villanova+Band%22]

Photograph, Villanova Singers, 1992-1993

Villanova Singers (2 photos added):
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:649898?type=AllFields&filter%5B%5D=topic_facet%3A%22Villanova+Singers%22]

World

[1] p., Diary, James Roger, April 1, 1900 – Novermber 30, 1901

James Roger Personal Papers (5 notebooks added):
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:691783?recordID=vudl%3A692024]

Posted for: Emily Poteat.

Beginning on June 07, 1939 King George VI, and his wife Queen Elizabeth embarked on the first royal visit to the United States that would endure until June 12, 1939. Joseph McGarrity’s 1939 diary offers intriguing insight into the visit through the lens of an American Irish Republican.

p. 93 clipping unfolded back, “Diary, Joseph McGarrity, 1939.” Joseph McGarrity, 1939.

Preceding the advent of the tour, there was much controversy surrounding the mere possibility of the tour, and the newspaper clippings included in McGarrity’s diary offer immense evidence of this. As a newspaper article titled “Britain Fears War” alluded to, many people were questioning in April 1939 if King George VI and Queen Elizabeth should be allowed to go on the visit at all because of the rising fears of an imminent breakout of international war (p. 15, clipping 4). There was a clear division of opinion within both the British cabinet as well as within the royal household; further, this primarily was due to the concern that if war broke out while the British royals were in the United States, the British government feared if they could return home from the tour (p. 15, clipping 4).

Despite these concerns, the tour went ahead, and the first traces of the decision for the tour to go ahead, is evident through the eyes of Joseph McGarrity in his 1939 diary. For, on May 23, 1939, McGarrity wrote “the King + Queen are to visit the President at Washington what Gall they have (p. 50). From this clear disdain, it is clear that McGarrity found the royal visit to not only inappropriate, but also inflammatory with the Irish question still looming large. With his characteristic vitriol towards Britain and the British empire, McGarrity chronicles what he considers to be the most important aspects of the royal visit in his diary.

The royal visit was inflammatory to McGarrity’s immense hatred toward the British monarchy, and his reaction to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth’s visit to the Irish exhibit at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. In the newspaper clipping, found in McGarrity’s diary, entitled “Royal Guests Visit the Irish Exhibit” King George VI and Queen Elizabeth are depicted as maintaining respectfulness and politeness while perusing the exhibit. As the “Queen gave special attention to an exhibit showing the activities for improvement of housing and hospital facilities,” and she commented that the exhibit was “very colorful and pleasant” (p. 93, clipping back). Furthermore, this was the first stop of the royal visit, and according to McGarrity the royal walk at the World’s Fair demonstrated that the visit represented “Fake freedom” and “Fake Patriots” on the part of the American government for entertaining the British royals (p. 92). McGarrity inherently thought that the United States should not entertain the British royals, as they represented a country maintaining a hold on a country searching for freedom. Evidence of this is apparent with McGarrity maintaining “gradually we have pulled the veil from the Faik [sic] Freedom that Ireland is supposed to Have and leave Her masked as still the Pawn of England (p. 92). For McGarrity believed that Roosevelt should side with the Irish, and support an independence movement that he equated with the American revolution.

. 92, “Diary, Joseph McGarrity, 1939.” Joseph McGarrity, 1939.

Further, it is clear that the Irish exhibit at the 1939 New York World’s Fair was a key part of the royal visit. As the reactions of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth are covered in intricate detail. For instance the reporter wrote, “the Queen paused briefly and asked John M. Conway…for an explanation…She made no comment, however, when he showed her the affixed text of the proclamation of the Irish Republic” (p. 93, clipping back). From the brief description of the Queen’s reaction to symbolism concerning Irish republicanism, it is clear that she was aware that the visit had potential to stir up emotions and criticism. Further, all descriptions of the king and queen on the visit to the Irish exhibit allude to a carefully staged, and self-monitored experience for the royals.

As a whole, McGarrity’s short inclusion of the 1939 royal visit offers a deeper understanding of McGarrity, as understanding what angered him hints at what he found most important. This episode in McGarrity’s diary demonstrates his deep criticism of not only Roosevelt, but also the actions and intentions of the royal family as well. For an Irish American, and Irish republican, McGarrity viewed the first visit of the royal family to the United States with deep suspicion of the intentions of the British for visiting, but also with deep fury.

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Emily Poteat is a graduate assistant in Irish Studies and Falvey Memorial Library’s Distinctive Collections and Digital Engagement Department, and a graduate student in the History Department.

Posted for: Emily Poteat.

From September 1938 to December 1939, Joseph McGarrity kept a number of diaries; however, this particular diary is in an old “Composition” notebook. Despite its humble appearance, this diary provides a riveting glimpse into the machinations of McGarrity concerning the onset of World War II, and McGarrity’s perceptions of the most prolific politicians of that period. Touched upon most in this particular diary, are McGarrity’s thoughts surrounding President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s visitors, and policies at the onset of World War II.

p. 20, Diary, “Diary, “Compositions” Joseph McGarrity, September 22, 1938 – November 1939.” Joseph McGarrity, 1939.

For McGarrity, Roosevelt was an obstacle standing in the way of American support for a fully united and independent Ireland. Because of this, much of McGarrity’s rhetoric concerning Roosevelt is not only skeptical, but at times McGarrity’s rhetoric becomes vitriolic. Attracting the most scorn from McGarrity was Roosevelt’s meeting with Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, whom McGarrity refers to as “Lord Beverbrook [sic]” (p. 20). To McGarrity, “Lord Beverbrook [sic]” is an “English official propagandist,” as he purchased quite a few American newspapers and McGarrity believed that the papers became too geared towards supporting England soon after (p. 20). Inherently, this is problematic for McGarrity, as it represented a turn for him towards a more sympathetic view of the British. In this regard, McGarrity describes Aitken’s role in the American press as one of the “tools of Americas [sic] most daingerous [sic] ‘Friend.” Because Roosevelt dined with Aitken, McGarrity viewed him as being too close and too willing to work with the British. This view is evident, as McGarrity viewed Roosevelt’s dinner with Aitken, as Roosevelt aligning the United States too closely with the United Kingdom. Inherently this was a major issue for McGarrity, as he, as an Irish republican, saw England as an imperial aggressor that was keeping Ireland from unification and independence. Most vitriolic in his assessment of Roosevelt, McGarrity on page 21 questions “will we ever get another such President as Washington who warned us for all future time aginst [sic] foreign entanglements,” and more pertinently McGarrity wondered “How can the United States prosper all the time on the auction block for England to buy” (p. 21). From this, McGarrity was not only questioning the efficacy of the United States catering to England when they were claiming to be neutral, but also was highly skeptical of Roosevelt’s integrity when it came to U.S. foreign policy. Moreover, McGarrity did not view Roosevelt as forming his policies on his own accord, instead McGarrity viewed Roosevelt as a puppet of the English government.

In equating Roosevelt with England’s war objectives, McGarrity often portrayed Roosevelt as lacking agency, and merely a tool utilized by England. Most clearly McGarrity does this by alluding to a “Roosevelt Promise,” or Roosevelt ignoring neutrality to work directly with England. With this rhetoric in mind, McGarrity on page 24 directly states “I wonder if England has a Roosevelt Promise to put America in the war on Her side?” (p. 24). In equating Roosevelt with McGarrity’s enemy, England, McGarrity does show partiality towards the Axis powers, and often times show outright support for Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin. In doing so, McGarrity on page 24 details that “Hitler and Stalin I hope are very buisy [sic] preparing”.

p.1, Letter, “Letter, To: “To the President of the United States We Appeal” From: [Irish Race?, 1939?].” McGarrity Papers, 1939.

McGarrity’s machinations about Roosevelt, and other key figures of the World War II era are important, as they demonstrate the way that McGarrity was understanding the events that were happening in the world around him. Further, these ideas surrounding Roosevelt represent a concerted shift from the way that McGarrity perceived Roosevelt in 1936, as in McGarrity’s 1936 diary, McGarrity wrote “I thank and I pray that Roosevelt gets elected a man of great Heart and courage + Brain” (p. 47)). By further exploring these diaries, one will be able to discern when, and why, McGarrity’s perception of Roosevelt changed, and what key factors pushed McGarrity from staunch support to strong dislike.

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Emily Poteat is a graduate assistant in Irish Studies and Falvey Memorial Library’s Distinctive Collections and Digital Engagement Department, and a graduate student in the History Department.

Read, research and review the newest available digitized content. This week: new dime novels and story paper issues, more of the literary notebooks of Annie Tuttle containing poems and lyrical verse, and a host of offerings from the James Wheeler Collection of Polar Exploration including correspondence from notable explorers.

Americana

Notebook, “Mile A Minute Composition Book” / Annie L.Tuttle.

Annie L. Tuttle papers (5 notebooks added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:684371]

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

Buffalo Bill in the jaws of death; or, The strange sacrifice of Uncopah / by the author of “Buffalo Bill.”

New Buffalo Bill Weekly (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:596124?lookfor=series%3A%28120+OR+122+OR+123+OR+124%29]

Periodicals

Detail, p. [273], Golden Days : for Boys and Girls, v. VIII, no. 18, April 2, 1887

Golden Days (5 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:650112?lookfor=title%3Aapril]

The Illustrated record, v. V, no. 64, Saturday, August 10, 1895

Illustrated Record (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:687559]

New York Ledger (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:688217?lookfor=title%3Amay]

New York Weekly (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:686038]

The People’s Home Journal, v. XXV, no. 5, May, 1910

People’s Home Journal (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:683123]

Portland Transcript (3 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:687558?lookfor=title%3Amay]

Detail, p. [1], The Weekly novelette, v. VI, no. 2, Saturday, September 24, 1859

Weekly Novelette (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:686149]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:686169]

James Wheeler Collection of Polar Exploration

Letter, To: “Dear Sir” From: John Franklin, undated.

Letter, To: “Dear Sir” From: John Franklin, undated.
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:682928]

Letter, To: Rev’d H. Wagner From: Sir John Franklin, undated.

Letter, To: Rev’d H. Wagner From: Sir John Franklin, undated.
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:682921]

Diagram, showing latitude near North Pole, signed by Robert Peary, November 1, 1909

Diagram, showing latitude near North Pole, signed by Robert Peary, November 1, 1909
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:682948]

Letter, To: Dr. O. H. Tittmann From: R.E. Peary, December 9, 1910
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:682941]

Letter, To: Dr. Tittmann From: E. H. Shackleton, September 28, 1909
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:682954]

Letter, To: Dr. F. Feith From: Knud Rasmussen, 28 November, 1929
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:682935]

Letter, To: Mr. Isaiah Bowmann From: Robert Flaherty, April 18, 1918
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:682960]

Posted for: Emily Poteat.

As a person with a passion for the history of World War II, it is needless to say I was intrigued at the prospect of transcribing Joseph McGarrity’s diary from 1939. Through his distinctive scrawling handwriting, McGarrity details his hopes, his Irish-republican organizing, and his personal opinions about the happenings of the world in the immediate months preceding the Second World War.

Photograph, Joseph McGarrity, standing with gloves, n.d.

Beyond this, McGarrity’s diary is immensely riveting in nature. Within just the first few pages, one is teleported into one of the Irish-republican effort’s most prolific minds, as he charts and plans how the Irish republican cause could benefit from an alliance with the Third Reich. On page ten of the manuscript McGarrity directly states that he sought, from an alliance with Nazi Germany, “technicians…particularly chemical experts,” to “ask for submarine experts to be trained,” and most tellingly with his intentions “that sufficient war stuffs be supplied in the line of war material for a major engagement in England.” As evidenced by McGarrity’s rhetoric, McGarrity and his Irish republican compatriots were planning for a major military effort and armed engagements on mainland England in the months preceding World War II. This is significant, as from my experience with McGarrity’s personal manuscripts, this is the first time he directly alluded to his involvement in arms procurement for the sole purpose of armed warfare with England. Furthermore, McGarrity’s diary entry directly points to a major Irish-republican effort to align itself with Hitler’s Nazi Germany right before World War II.

p. 10, Diary, “Diary, Joseph McGarrity, 1939,” Joseph McGarrity, 1939.

Most pertinently, McGarrity’s diary points to an intentional effort of Irish Republicans to organize armed engagement beyond anonymous bombings in England, which McGarrity chronicles in his diary as well. The purpose of this alignment with Germany in 1939 for McGarrity, was to force England to remove its forces from Northern Ireland and to allow both Ireland and Northern Ireland to unite into a single republican nation. If this were to occur, McGarrity believed that recognition by other nations was critical to the success of a completely independent and united Ireland, as he professes on page ten “since the freedom of Ireland would mean the freedom of the seas early Recognition by German Italy + [sic] Spain and as many of the Government as Germany and Her Allies can influence should come as early a date as possible.” Clearly, McGarrity saw an alliance with Nazi Germany as a clear way to push forward the effort to unite the Ireland and Northern Ireland. Distinctively, further corroborating McGarrity’s intention is his statement on page ten, “in case war supplies must be landed in England so that an Irish Republican force can get into action there on a big scale I feel sure they would be joined by many thousands of Irish once operations would begin in England.”

Expounding on McGarrity’s idea that the Irish Republican cause would benefit through an alliance with Germany, McGarrity, throughout his diary is incredibly critical of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, his cabinet, and the British parliament. Evidence for this lies in McGarrity’s numerous newspaper clippings he includes in his diary, that often only include critical assessments of the British government or critical views surrounding Roosevelt’s intentions towards the Irish cause.

As a whole, McGarrity’s 1939 diary offers important insight into the way Irish Americans, and Irish republicans like Joseph McGarrity, sought to align themselves, as well as sought to continue the Irish republican cause in the immediate months before the Second World War.

——————–
Emily Poteat is a graduate assistant in Irish Studies and Falvey Memorial Library’s Distinctive Collections and Digital Engagement Department, and a graduate student in the History Department.

Resources recently digitized and published are highlighted in this multi-week edition of the Content Roundup. Having entered the public domain this year, some 1926 content is featured as are continued digitization work on dime novel and story paper collections.

Americana

Remember the Maine Collection

Maine Memorial Service Held At White’s Opera House, Concord, N.H., Tuesday evening, March 22, 1898
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Record/vudl:684420]

Annie L. Tuttle papers

Sheet music, “The Quinnipiac River” / words by Mrs. Willard W. Tuttle, music by M. Hanford
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:684361]

Notebook, “Our Banner Year Satin Finish” / Annie L.Tuttle
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:684372]

Notebook, “My First Hunting Season” / Annie L.Tuttle
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:685351]

Magazines

Rear cover, Journeys Beautiful: the magazine of travel, v. 1, no. 11, October 1925

Journeys Beautiful: the magazine of travel (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:683996]

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

Front cover, Dean Dunham; or, The Waterford mystery / by Horatio Alger, Jr.

Dean Dunham; or, The Waterford mystery / by Horatio Alger, Jr.
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:684699]

Front cover, Buffalo Bill’s dead drop; or, Pawnee Bill betrayed / by the author of “Buffalo Bill.”

New Buffalo Bill Weekly (8 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:596124?recordID=vudl%3A680328]

Periodicals

New York clipper, v. XXX, no. 48, Saturday, February 17, 1883

New York Clipper (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:658811]

Front cover, Chicago Ledger, v. XLVI, no. 2, Saturday, January 12, 1918

Chicago Ledger (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:639387]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:639422]

Front cover, They’re after me / adapted, with original words, by Monroe H. Rosenfeld

They’re after me / adapted, with original words, by Monroe H. Rosenfeld (Boys of New York supplement)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:669120]

Blade and Ledger (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:683972]

New York Fireside Companion (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:561307?lookfor=title%3Aapril]

New York Ledger (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:649658?lookfor=title%3Adecember]

Front cover, The People’s Home Journal, v. XXIII, no. 12, December, 1908

People’s Home Journal (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:684126]

Boys’ World (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:647305]

Girls’ Companion (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:652562?lookfor=title%3Adecember]

Detail, p. [1], The golden era, v. XXII, no. 2, Sunday morning, December 7, 1873

The Golden Era (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:684309?lookfor=title%3Adecember]

[305] p., Golden Hours : A Weekly Journal of Good Literature for Young Folks, v. XXI, no. 540, Saturday June 4, 1898

Golden Hours (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:683639]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:683659]

New York Weekly (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:660877?lookfor=title%3Aaugust]

Saturday Night (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:655987]

Joseph McGarrity

Detail, [1] p., The Gaelic American – v. 5, no. 8, February 22, 1908, Whole Number 232

The Gaelic American (1908:7 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:662603]

Newspaper Collection

The Stethoscope : Echoes of the Battalion (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:683006]

Detail, p. 2, The Cleveland News, v. 85, no. 141, Friday, May 21, 1926

The Cleveland News (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:684060]

Pennsylvaniana

T.A. Daly Collection

A Little Book of American Humorous Verse, 1926
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:680116]

Rambles, Travels, and Maps

James Wheeler Collection of Polar Exploration

Title page, The Adventure of Wrangel Island

The Adventure of Wrangel Island, 1926
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:679650]

Villanova Digital Collection

Falvey Memorial Library

Mosaic: News from Falvey Memorial Library, Fall 2021
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Record/vudl:683107]

Negative, Track Team, 1970

We finish out 2021 with the highlights of digitized and described content from December 2021 as the year concludes. Notable materials include over 90 negatives on Villanova’s track and field program, issues from 2 newspapers from the American Occupation of Korea 1946, 2 new trade catalogs, 2 volumes of Naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn from the Gregor Mendel Collection, 7 items from the James Wheeler Collection of Polar Exploration and more Dime Novels and story paper issues!

Americana

Front, Postcard, Easter greetings!

Postcard, Easter Greetings!
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:682194]

Catalogs and Trade materials

p. [14], Lange Motor Trucks

Lange Motor Trucks : the truck built on experience. Catalogue D. Made in Pittsburgh
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:682974]

p. [3], Illustrated book of animals

Illustrated book of animals
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:682260]

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

Tom Tracy; or, The trials of a New York newsboy / by Horatio Alger, Jr.
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:682402]

Front cover

Jack Harkaway’s schooldays / by Bracebridge Hemyng
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:681263]

Periodicals

Fireside at Home (7 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:655104?lookfor=%22v.+III%22]

Detail, p. 238, Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner, v. X, no. 254, April 9, 1870

Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner (5 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:383292?lookfor=title%3Aapril]

Girls’ Companion (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:652562?lookfor=title%3Aoctober]

Front cover, Buffalo Bill’s dead drop; or, Pawnee Bill betrayed

New Buffalo Bill Weekly (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:596124?lookfor=series%3A(8+OR+11+OR+30+OR+34)]

New York Weekly (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:660877?lookfor=title%3Ajune]

Detail, p. [225], The Weekly novelette, v. V, no. 15, Saturday, June 25, 1859

Weekly Novelette (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:660067?lookfor=title%3Ajune]

Newspapers

[1] p., The Stethoscope : Echoes of the Battalion, v. 1, no. 7, April 29, 1946

The Stethoscope (1946: 2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:683006]

Front cover, The hour glass : Seventh Infantry Division, v. 1, no. 1, Sunday, January 16, 1946

The hour glass : Seventh Infantry Division (1946: 19 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:682193]

Flora, Fauna, and the Human Form

Mendel Collection

[99] p., Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn, II Band, 1863

Naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn (2 volumes added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:680779]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:678636]

Rambles, Travels, and Maps

James Wheeler Collection of Polar Exploration

Front, Map, Key Map of Canadian Arctic Expedition, Discoveries in the Arctic Sea, 1914-18

Map, Key Map of Canadian Arctic Expedition, Discoveries in the Arctic Sea, 1914-18
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:682175]

Photograph, portrait of Admiral Richard Byrd, signed, undated
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:682169]

Photograph, portrait of Lincoln Ellsworth, signed, November 1936
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:682187]

Front, Photograph, Richard E. Byrd and Donald B. MacMillan shaking hands, signed, undated

Photograph, Richard E. Byrd and Donald B. MacMillan shaking hands, signed, undated
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:682915]

Portrait engraving of Elisha Kent Kane, M.D., U.S.N., undated
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:682968]

Front, Receipt, signed by John Franklin, Capt. R. N., February 7, 1825

Receipt, signed by John Franklin, Capt. R. N., February 7, 1825
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:682181]

Plate II, recto, John Ross : Entdeckungsreise unter den befehlen der Britischen Admiralität mit den königlichen schiffen Isabella und Alexander um Baffins Bay auszuforschen und die Möglichkeit einer nordwestlichen Durchfahrt zu Untersuchen.

John Ross : Entdeckungsreise unter den befehlen der Britischen Admiralität mit den königlichen schiffen Isabella und Alexander um Baffins Bay auszuforschen und die Möglichkeit einer nordwestlichen Durchfahrt zu Untersuchen
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:681874]

Villanova Digital Collection

Athletics

Negative, Track, 1966

Track and Field Images (1966-1970: 90 negatives added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:640801]

Posted for: Emily Poteat.

p. 33, Diary, “Decker’s Special 200 pages,” Joseph McGarrity, 1940.

From his unique handwriting, to his strong and decisive beliefs, Joseph McGarrity has been one of the most engaging individuals I have encountered in my work thus far. McGarrity was born on March 28, 1874 and lived until September 04, 1940, and lived a life defined by work towards a unified and independent Ireland. As an Irish-American political activist, McGarrity strove to spread Irish republican values through his work in organizations like the Clan-na-Gael. McGarrity’s 1940 diary, gives a glimpse into what was defining McGarrity’s concerns and political activism during the final years of his life. Filled with newspaper clippings, and personal anecdotes, McGarrity’s diary allows a deeper insight into McGarrity as a person, and how hie viewed England in the age of World War II, and the Irish Civil War.

While steadfastly rooting against England in World War II, McGarrity was perturbed and continually concerned with justice for Irish republicans battling for a unified and independent Ireland. This is most evident in McGarrity’s diary, as primarily in this manuscript McGarrity’s political activism is centered on having the sentences of two Irish Republican Army members commuted. James Richards and Peter Barnes, were sentenced to death following their alleged role in a bombing in Coventry in 1939. Following this sentence, McGarrity immediately began advocacy work to have the sentence commuted, as McGarrity believed the trial to have been carried out in an unjust manner; moreover, McGarrity viewed both Richards and Barnes as prisoners of war in the ongoing Irish Civil War.

From McGarrity’s diary, both his work to commute the executions, and beliefs towards the executions of Barnes and Richards is illuminated. The first mention of this is on page 12 of the manuscript, where McGarrity writes on the resolution he and James P McGranery, a congressman, were working to have presented to congress. McGarrity, in going into greater detail on the resolution on the commutation of the sentence for Richards and Barnes wrote in an entry on January 21, 1940 wrote, “conferred with James P. McGranery regarding resolution in protest of the execution now proposed by England of two Irish Prisoners of war He McGranery hopes to have resolution offered on floor of Congress.”

As the diary progresses, McGarrity’s work does come to fruition, as the resolution he and McGranery wrote was taken up by another congressman, Thomas A. Flaherty, who agreed to present the resolution to congress. McGarrity and McGranery’s resolution called for the ambassador of the United States to the United Kingdom to petition the English government to commute the death sentences of Barnes and Richards. This resolution gained media attention, and McGarrity featured the clippings of the resolution in his diary, one clipping was entitled “Bill Asks Roosevelt To Aid I.R.A. Men.”

As time passes in McGarrity’s diary, McGarrity’s passion towards his work for the commutation of the two IRA members becomes clearer. Impassioned prayers are laden throughout the manuscript. For example, in an entry on January 30, 1940, McGarrity passionately proclaimed in his diary “God I thank thou for thy Devine [sic] Help. Smite of Smite this enemy of Ireland and of right.” Further exemplifying the tendency to include prayers in his diary, McGarrity upon writing on the decision of England to continue with the executions despite the pushback that his resolution generated wrote, “God sustain our boys who are to die tomorrow for Ireland may retaliation be swift on part of I.R.A.”

While McGarrity’s advocacy and resolution for the Barnes and Richards did not result in a commutation of their sentences, this episode in McGarrity’s diary illuminates both McGarrity’s dedication to Irish republican ideals, and his commitment to aiding those who were working towards the same goal. From showing his steadfast commitment against England and for Ireland, as well as more emotion in his impassioned moments of prayer, McGarrity’s 1940 diary is an excellent source for better understanding McGarrity as an advocate, but also as an individual. Moreover, this diary gives a deep insight into what was of the most pressing concern to McGarrity near the end of his life.

Photograph, “The Late Joseph McGarrity,” n.d.

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Emily Poteat is a graduate assistant in Irish Studies and Falvey Memorial Library’s Distinctive Collections and Digital Engagement Department, and a graduate student in the History Department.

Selection, p. [1], Street and Smith’s New York Weekly : a journal of useful knowledge, romance, amusement, &c., v. 60, no. 19, February 18, 1905

This week we present a raft of newly digitized materials including more Dime Novels and story paper issues, and more newspaper issues from the Joseph McGarrity Collection and from the Radnor Historical Society.

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

Selina’s love story : or, The winning of a heart / by Effie Adelaide Rowlands
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:675187]

Frank Merriwell, Jr., and the talking head : or, A mystery neatly solved / by Burt L. Standish
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:674445]

Old Broadbrim keeping his vow; or, The tangled mystery of the Quaker City / by the author of “Old Broadbrim.”

Old Broadbrim Weekly (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:287323?lookfor=series%3A%2815+OR+17+OR+19+OR+23%29&submit=Set]

Mischievous Matt / by Bracebridge Hemyng

Round the World Library (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:675828]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:675510]

Periodicals

Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner, v. X, no. 245, February 5, 1870

Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:658215]

Girls’ Companion (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:652562?lookfor=title%3Ajuly]

Street & Smith’s Literary Album, v. I, no. 20, May 5, 1866

Street & Smith’s Literary Album (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:629804?lookfor=title%3Amay]

Selection, p. [1], Street and Smith’s New York Weekly : a journal of useful knowledge, romance, amusement, &c., v. 60, no. 18, February 11, 1905

Street & Smith’s New York Weekly (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:660877?lookfor=title%3Afebruary]

Joseph McGarrity Collection

Newspapers

Selection, p. [1], Sinn fein, v. 2, no. 29, Saturday, May 10, 1924

Sinn fein (6 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:676207]

Selection, p. [1], The Gaelic American – Vol. IV No. 40, October 5, 1907, Whole Number 212

Gaelic American (6 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:266848]

Radnor Historical Society

The Suburban (Wayne Times Edition), v. 35, no. 23, January 23, 1920

The Suburban, Wayne Times Edition (9 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:581980]

Newly digitized and available this week are a large set of materials from Distinctive Collections; notable items include: more story paper issues, more Dime Novels, two rare Irish newspapers from the Joseph McGarrity Collection, and a trove of Villanova materials related to Hunger Awareness Week, the Black Student League, and Christmas.

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

Old Broadbrim among the thugs of Harlem; or, Landing a big catch / by the author of “Old Broadbrim.”

Old Broadbrim Weekly (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:287323?lookfor=series%3A(8+OR+11+OR+12+OR+13)]

Periodicals

Front cover selection, The Chicago Ledger, v. VI, no. 25, Saturday, June 22, 1878

Chicago Ledger (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:660879]

[225] p., Golden Days : for Boys and Girls, v. VIII, no. 15, March 12, 1887

Golden Days (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:650112?lookfor=title%3Amarch]

Munro’s girls and boys of America, v. VI, no. 148, July 29, 1876

Munro’s Girls and Boys of America (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:655036]

[273] p., Street & Smith’s Literary Album, v. I, no. 18, April 21, 1866

Street & Smith’s Literary Album (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:629804?lookfor=title%3Aapril]

Street and Smith’s New York Weekly, v. 60, no. 13, January 7, 1905

Street & Smith’s New York Weekly (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:660877?lookfor=title%3Ajanuary]

Weekly Novelette (5 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:660067?lookfor=title%3Aapril]

Joseph McGarrity Collection

Newspaper

The Irish Republic, v. 2, no. 8, August, 1940

The Irish Republic (8 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:673980]

Irish Freedom (31 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:667462]

Villanova Digital Collection

Hunger Awareness Week:

Photograph, Rev. John M. Driscoll, O.S.A., Ph.D., President, Hunger Awareness Week, March 1985
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:673267]

Letter, Hunger Awareness, November 5, 1986
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:673865]

Black Student League:

Black Student League Program, February 14-27, 1971
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:673841]

Black Student League Poster, February 14-27, 1971
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:673849]

Black Student League & Moratorium Committee, undated.
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:673855]

Christmas:

Photograph, Campus, Alumni Hall Winter Scene, circa 1920s
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:673261]

Program, Villanova College Chapel, Christmas Carols, December 12, 1951
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:673287]

Program, Villanova University Christmas Concert, December 15, 1959
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:673308]

Program, Villanova University Christmas Concert, December 5, 1960
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:673316]

Program, Villanova University Christmas Concert, December 10, 1971

Program, Villanova University Christmas Concert, December 10, 1971
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:673322]

Letter, To: “Friends of the Villanova Singers”, From: Rev. Edward L. Hamel, November 7, 1975
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:673330]

Program, Christmas Informal Dance (Western Pennsylvania Club), December 30, 1926
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:673336]