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Content Roundup – End of December 2021- to Mid-January 2022

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]


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Content Roundup – First Two Weeks – September 2021

This two week Content Roundup highlights recently digitized materials from the first two weeks of September including more materials from American popular culture and literature.

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

Captain Mystery; or, The brave girl of Boulder Bar / by Herbert Bellwood
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:654937]

Holland Library (1 issue added):
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:653031]

Her love or her life? : a sequel to The bride’s ordeal / by E.D.E.N. Southwort
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:654600]

Periodicals

Golden Hours : A Weekly Journal of Good Literature for Young Folks, v. XXI, no. 542, Saturday June 18, 1898

Golden Hours : A Weekly Journal of Good Literature for Young Folks (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:654580]

Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner, v. X, no. 240, January 1, 1870

Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:652643]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:653894]

Selection, front cover, The Girls’ companion, v. VI, no. 12, March 23, 1907

Girls’ Companion (5 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:652562?lookfor=title%3Amarch]

Portland Transcript (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:649817?lookfor=title%3Afeb]


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Content Roundup – First Two Weeks – August 2021

p. 6, Minute book, Friends of Irish Freedom: Patrick H. Pearse Branch, December 19, 1916-November 21, 1920

Just a few new Dime Novels and Story Papers for your reading and research needs as the summer heat continues! Also completed this week is the full and annotated transcription of the Joseph McGarrity Collection Minute book of the Friends of Irish Freedom: Patrick H. Pearse Branch ranging from December 19, 1916 to November 21, 1920.

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

Diamond Dick and the safe-crackers; or, Two-spot’s level best / by the author of “Diamond Dick.”

Diamond Dick and the safe-crackers; or, Two-spot’s level best / by the author of “Diamond Dick.”
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:641657]

Rattlesnake Ralph’s lightning pards
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:652663]

Periodicals

The Girls’ companion, v. VI, no. 4, January 26, 1907

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

Detail, p. 105, Golden Days : for Boys and Girls, v. VIII, no. 7, January 15, 1887

Golden Days (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:651257]

New York Ledger (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:650904]

Detail from p. [313], The Portland transcript, v. XIX, no. 40, Saturday, Jan. 12, 1856

Portland Transcript (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:652035]

Weekly Novelette (1 issue)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:651635]

Joseph McGarrity Collection

Papers

Minute book, Friends of Irish Freedom: Patrick H. Pearse Branch, December 19, 1916-November 21, 1920 (Transcription added under “Downloads”)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:137285]


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Content Roundup – Last Week – April 2020

Negative, Basketball (Jack Kraft/coach and team), 1962.

April finally concludes! This week we present items digitized earlier this semester and published this week including: more story-paper and newspaper issues, vintage basketball photographs from the Wildcat’s 1962-1963 season under coach Jack Kraft, with notable players Wali Jones and Jim Washington, more Villanova Graduate Theses from 1966/67, and photographs documenting the interior of the Connelly Center.
Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Periodicals

The Boys’ world, v. 21, no. 32, August 12, 1922

Boys’ World (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:618830]

Masthead, The New York Ledger, v. XIII, no. 30, October 3, 1857

New York Ledger (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:617043]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:617055]

The Youth’s companion, v. XXXVII, no. 22, Thursday, May 28, 1863.

Youth’s Companion (5 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:618370]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:618378]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:618386]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:618394]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:618402]

Villanova Digital Collection

Negative, Basketball (Jack Kraft/Coach and James O’Brien, No. 54 and James McMonagle, No. 50), 1962

Basketball photographs (29 photographs added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:579126?lookfor=1962&type=AllFields]

Photograph, Connelly Center (Interior, main lobby), undated.

Photographs, Connelly Center, Interior, (13 photographs added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:620532]

Graduate Theses

Theses (15 added, from 1966 (8) and 1967 (7))
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:180191]


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Content Roundup – 2nd and 3d weeks – April 2020

Photograph, Students in front of Mendel Hall, 1913.

In this double week issues of Content Roundup, we present items digitized earlier this semester and published during the 2nd and 3d weeks of April. Notable materials include: more story-paper and newspaper issues including issues of the rare Irish newspaper “The Gaelic American” from 1920, Villanova Graduate Theses from 1966/67, photographs documenting the construction of the Connelly Center, more Villanova student life materials including photographs of students on campus, and the latest collection to be digitized from the Museum of Nursing History, documents on the WWII nurse Jessie Margaret Ada Mutch.

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Periodicals

The Boys’ world, v. 21, no. 28, July 15, 1922

Boys’ World (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:618806]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:618782]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:618794]

Chicago Ledger, v. XXXVIII, no. 46, Saturday, November 12, 1910.

Chicago Ledger (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:620390]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:620410]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:576727]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:620366]

The Youth’s companion, v. XXXVII, no. 9, Thursday, February 26, 1863

Youth’s Companion (7 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:618314]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:618322]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:618330]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:618282]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:618290]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:618298]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:618306]

Joseph McGarrity Collection

Newspapers

The Gaelic American (1920: 17 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:344588]

Museum of Nursing History

[1] p., Scrapbook (Part 1) of Jessie Margaret Ada Mutch, [Sept. 1, 1944 – Feb. 1945].

Jessie Margaret Ada Mutch Collection (3 objects added from the new collection of WWII Army Nurse)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:620527]

Villanova Digital Collection

Connelly Center Records

Photographs, Connelly Center construction, 1978-1980 (43 photos added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:620523]

Graduate Theses

Theses (17 items added from 1966 and 1967)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:180191]

Photographs and Illustrations

Back, Photograph, May Time, 1917

Student Life (18 images added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:620489]


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Content Roundup – Third Week – September 2019

Ticket, Basketball (Complimentary): Villanova College Field House, 1949-1950.

Read, research and review the newest available digitized content. This week: new maps, new dime novels and story paper issues, and more Villanova basketball ephemera!

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

The dark corners of New York; or, The perils of a district telegraph messenger / by H. K. Shackleford
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:581758]

The Giant-killer; or, The Battle which all must fight / by A. L. O. E.
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:574644]

Periodicals

Chicago Ledger, v. XLIII, no. 24, Saturday, June 12, 1915

Chicago Ledger (14 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:560354]

Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner, v. XVII, no. 429, August 16, 1873

Chimney Corner (5 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:331827?lookfor=august]

Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner, v. XVII, no. 429, August 16, 1873

International Weekly Illustrated Ladies’ Journal (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:577164]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:577144]

New York Weekly (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:579828]

The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick

[2], verso, Program, 182nd Annual Banquet, Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, March 17, 1953

Programs (12 annual programs added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:486743]

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

County map of the state of Pennsylvania / drawn and engraved by W.H. Gamble, Philadelphia
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:571259]

The State of Pennsylvania : reduced with permission from Reading Howell’s map / by Samuel Lewis
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:571265]

Newspapers

City gazette and commercial daily advertiser, v. XL, no. 12,739, Thursday morning, March 9, 1820

City Gazette and Commercial Advertiser (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:577622]

Philadelphia Ceili Group

1982 Fall Festival (Tape #5, Side One added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:582014]

Radnor Historical Society

Newspapers

The Suburban (Wayne Times Edition), v. 23, no. 41, January 10, 1908

The Suburban, Wayne Times Edition (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:581980]

Villanova Digital Collection

Basketball

Tickets

Ticket, Basketball (Complimentary): Villanova College Field House, 1948-1949
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:577494]

Ticket, Basketball (Complimentary): Villanova College Field House, 1949-1950
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:577500]


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Content Roundup – First Week – September 2019

Front cover, Chicago Ledger, v. XLVII, no. 42, Saturday, October 18, 1919

This week’s newest digitized offerings include more maps from the John F. Smith, III and Susan B. Smith Antique Map Collection, a rare pocket Mark Twain scrapbook, more dime novels and story paper issues, materials from the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, as well as two score-books used to record Villanova Basketball games, and some additional Villanova Theater programs!

Americana

[3] p. , Mrs. Hine’s Mark Twain’s pocket adhesive scrapbook

Mrs. Hine’s Mark Twain’s pocket adhesive scrapbook
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:578229]

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

The hunter scouts, or, The bride of the valley / by Captain Carleton
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:577658]

[That boy Bones; or, The Terror of the boarding-house / by “Fred.”
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:577254]

Periodicals

Chicago Ledger, v. XLVII, no. 46, Saturday, November 15, 1919

Chicago Ledger (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:566580]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:566699]

The flag of our Union, v. IX, no. 31, Saturday, August 5, 1854

Flag of Our Union (3 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:576563]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:576575]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:576587]

International Weekly Illustrated Ladies’ Journal (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:573999]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:577023]

The weekly museum, v. XVI, no. 50, [whole] no. 831, Saturday, December 15, 1804

Weekly Museum (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:577614]

Friendly Sons of St. Patrick

Annual Programs

Seating Chart, Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, 168th Annual Dinner, March 17, 1939
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:578470]

Program, 167th Annual Banquet, Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, March 17, 1938
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:578477]

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

Carte des parties nord et ouest de l’Amérique dressée d’apres les relations les plus authentiques par M … en 1764 : Nouvelle édition réduite
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:573679]

Detail, The State of Pennsylvania : From the latest surveys, 1796.

The State of Pennsylvania : From the latest surveys
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:573674]

An accurate map of the island of St. Christophers, from an acutal survey; shewing the parishes, churches, and rivers; also the bays, rocks, shoals, and soundings that surround the whole
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:573669]

MacSwiney Club

Irish American Club

12 Membership cards, 1954
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:576168]

Newspapers

Cover detail, New-York daily tribune, v. XVI, no. 4,782, Saturday, August 16, 1856

New-York Daily Tribune (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:570802]

Villanova Digital Collection

Athletics

[6] p. from 1956, Official NCAA Basketball Scorebook

Basketball

The New Short and Long Basketball Scorebook / by Oscar W. Gluck and Walter Barczewski [Villanova community access only]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:578573]

The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Basketball Scorebook … / Howard A. Hobson, technical editior.
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:578497]

Villanova Theatre

Programs (4 items added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:571235]


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Content Roundup – Third Week – June 2019

A map of Pennsylvania exhibiting not only the improved parts of that Province, but also its extensive frontiers

Newly digitized this week are a host of new materials including the initial content from the latest Digital Library Partners: the MacSwiney Club and the Radnor Historical Society. Notable additions from these Partner’s include: a minute book from the Irish Club of Philadelphia from the 1880’s, and issues of the Weekly Wayne Gazette which covered the Wayne and Villanova environs in the 1870’s. Other noteworthy content this week include a 1775 map of Pennsylvania from the John F. Smith, III and Susan B. Smith Antique Map Collection, more Dime Novel and story paper issues, and more Irish music from the Philadelphia Ceili Group.

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

Cinderella
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565541]

Larry Murtagh’s desperate case; or, Tracing a remarkable abduction / by Bernard Wayde
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565794]

The House of fear; or, The Young duke’s strange quest / by “Old Sleuth”
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565057]

Periodicals

Chicago Ledger (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565004]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:566147]

Detail, p. [57], The flag of our Union, v. IX, no. 8, Saturday, February 25, 1854

Flag of Our Union (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:563539]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:563551]

International Weekly Illustrated Ladies’ Journal (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565137]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565903]

Detail, p. 5,Saturday Night, v. XXIII, no. 14, Saturday, December 5, 1885

Saturday Night (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565200]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:564122]

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

A map of Pennsylvania exhibiting not only the improved parts of that Province, but also its extensive frontiers …, 1775:
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:566641]

MacSwiney Club

Irish American Club

Realia

3/4 view, Paper embosser, Irish American Club of Philadelphia, June 9, 1888

Paper embosser, Irish American Club of Philadelphia, June 9, 1888
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:566647]

Minute Books

3 p., Minute book, Irish American Club (Philadelphia, Pa.), March 4, 1888 – May 4, 1890

Minute book, Irish American Club (Philadelphia, Pa.), March 4, 1888 – May 4, 1890
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:566167]

Philadelphia Ceili Group

1978 Fall Festival (4 audio files added, completing Tapes 3 & 4)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565393]

Radnor Historical Society

Detail, p. [1], Weekly Wayne Gazette, v. 1, no. 15, September 2, 1871

Weekly Wayne Gazette (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:566692]

Villanova Digital Collection

2019 Undergraduate Honors Theses (5 added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565016]


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Content Roundup – Second Week – June 2019

[9] p., Treasure Island

As June’s rains bring new flowers, so newly digitized materials bring new readers and researchers. A number of newly digitized resources are available this week including more Irish music from the Philadelphia Ceili Group, two maps of Cuba from the John F. Smith, III and Susan B. Smith Antique Map Collection, as well more dime novels and story papers including a very rare version of Treasure Island from the Oglivie’s Toy Books series, published in conjunction with a now lost silent film.

Dime Novel and Popular Literature Collection

Fiction

The blazing arrow / by Samuel Fletcher
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:561309]

Rear cover

Treasure Island (Oglivie’s Toy Books series)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565525]

Davenport Blake, the Metropolitan detective; or, “Piping” the Harlem mystery / by M. H. Williams
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565593]

Selection, Front cover

The Fatal chair : being the continuation of Old Sleuth Weekly no. 107, entitled: Gardermore [sic] the detective / by Old Sleuth
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565017]

Periodicals

Selection, Front cover, Chicago Ledger, v. XXVI, no. 31, Wednesday, August 3, 1898

Chicago Ledger (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:564992]

Selection [1] p., “Spirit Fancies” / Persa S. Lewis, The flag of our Union, v. IX, no. 5, Saturday, February 4, 1854.

Flag of Our Union (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:563527]

Selection, 149 p., International Weekly Illustrated Ladies’ Journal, part 5, no. 10.

International Weekly Illustrated Ladies’ Journal (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565097]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565117]

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

2 Geographical and Topographical Maps of the Island of Cuba, 1873
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565252]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565261]

Philadelphia Ceili Group

1978 Fall Festival (3 parts added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565393]

Villanova Digital Collection

Undergraduate Honors Theses

2019 (5 added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:565016]


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Content Roundup – First Two Weeks – March 2019

Front cover, Dr. Courtney’s guide to happy marriage

As temperatures are rising with the approach of spring, take a moment to browse the latest digitized materials. Highlights from this two week edition include: more maps and plates from the John F. Smith, III and Susan B. Smith Antique Map Collection, an early manuscript “Pennsylvania Militia Legion cash book, 6 December 1865 – 6 December 1879” from the German Society of Pennsylvania, a host of new Dime Novel and Story Paper issues, more commencement programs, and the 1964 Belle Air yearbook.

Dime Novel and Popular Literature Collection

Fiction

Farragut’s scout Ringlets; or, The Brand of the Mississippi / by Cal de Castro
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:553402]

Under guard; or, Raid and battle in Kentucky / by Corporal Morris Hoyne

Under guard; or, Raid and battle in Kentucky / by Corporal Morris Hoyne
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:554117]

Spider-legs, or, The maiden of the wildwood / by J. C. Chase
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:551575]

Non-Fiction

Dr. Courtney’s guide to happy marriage
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:553112]

Mormonism exposed / by a Mormon Slave Wife
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:553092]

How to become a lightning calculator

How to become a lightning calculator
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:553018]

Periodicals

Front cover, Chicago Ledger, v. XXVII, no. 16, Saturday, April 15, 1899

Chicago Ledger (3 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:550395]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:550355]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:550375]

Grit (Story Section), v. 39, no. 41, Story Section no. 1391, September 11, 1921

Grit (3 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:552998]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:553132]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:552978]

Front cover (selection), Saturday Night, v. XXXV, no. 16, Saturday December 4, 1897

Saturday Night (3 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:553998]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:553986]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:552966]

The German Society of Pennsylvania

John F. Ballier papers

Front pastedown, Pennsylvania Militia Legion cash book, 6 December 1865 – 6 December 1879

Pennsylvania Militia Legion cash book, 6 December 1865 – 6 December 1879
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:551307]

Joseph McGarrity Collection

Newspapers

[401] p., selection, Irish Fireside, v.6, no. 157, June 19, 1886

Irish Fireside (7 issues added, 1886)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:542168]

Rambles, Travels, and Maps

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

Selection, Typus orbis terrarum, ad imitationem universalis Gerhardi Mercatoris

Typus orbis terrarium … (1598)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:553050]

Tabula Asiae IIII (1540)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:553220]

Orbis descriptio

Orbis description (1574)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:553224]

Septentrionalium Partium Nova Tabula [Frisland] (1561)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:553228]

Papua men in New Guinea in their canoes hunting wild hogs
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:553216]

War canoes of Otaheite equipp’d for engagement as represented by Capt.n Cooke [https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:553046]

Villanova Digital Collection

Villanova Commencement Programs: (4 added, 1925-1929)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:523674]

Yearbooks

[1] p., Belle Air 1964

Belle Air, 1964
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:553633]


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