Detail p. 5, The Days’ doings, v. VII, no. 179, November 4, 1871

This week we offer a few more Dime Novels and story paper issues, with more materials coming in the days and weeks ahead.

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

Remember the Maine; or, Clif Faraday’s rallying cry / by Ensign Clarke Fitch, U.S.N.

Remember the Maine; or, Clif Faraday’s rallying cry / by Ensign Clarke Fitch, U.S.N.
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:653728]

Captain Sparkle, pirate : or, A hard man to catch / by Nicholas Carter

Captain Sparkle, pirate : or, A hard man to catch / by Nicholas Carter
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:654046]

Periodicals

The Days’ doings, v. VII, no. 179, November 4, 1871

Days’ Doings (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:653820]

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

Detail p. 5, The New York Ledger, v. XXVIII, no. 15, June 1, 1872

New York Ledger (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:650928]

Detail p. 335, The Portland transcript, v. XIX, no. 42, Saturday, Jan. 26, 1856

Portland Transcript (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:652047]

Weekly Novelette (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:651675]

Typescript, Letter, To: Fr. Falvey. From: Éamon de Valera, March 12, 1962

This week we present a host of new materials, including additional Dime Novels and Story Paper issues. In addition, a rare poetry book by Pater Golden from the Joseph McGarrity Collection as well as an important letter about the McGarrity Collection itself are made available online for the first time. Finally the concluding parts of the Nursing Museum’s Jessie Margaret Ada Mutch Collection are available.

Dime Novel and Popular Literature Collection

Fiction

The banker’s heir / by Sylvanus Cobb, Jr.
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:649971]

The lone range rider; or, Among the rustlers of the bad lands / by Herbert Bellwood
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:653183]

Gentleman Joe’s moonlight matinee; or, The Wild-cat of Whiskey Gap / by the author of “Gentleman Joe.”
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:653147]

Periodicals

Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner, v. X, no. 237, December 11, 1869

Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:652583]

Girls’ Companion (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:653135]

Golden Days (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:651297]

Portland Transcript (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:652059]

Nursing Museum

p. [28], Item 1, front

Jessie Margaret Ada Mutch Collection (1 scrapbook part added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:636114]

Josesph McGarrity Collection

Books

[2] p., The Voice of Ireland / by Peter Golden

The Voice of Ireland / by Peter Golden
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:652895]

Papers

Typescript, Letter, To: Fr. Falvey. From: Éamon de Valera, March 12, 1962
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:653599]

Villanova Digital Collection

Magazines, Newsletters, and Journals

The Villanovan, Vol. 77. No. 3, September 14, 2001.

The Villanovan (2 issues added from September, 2001)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:653624]

Villanova student author

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Dawn Chorus Male Song in Relation to Ancestry in the Black-capped Chickadee x Carolina Chickadee Hybrid Zone / Ariana A. Abbrescia
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:653717]

Letter, To: A. McLellan From: E. K. Kane, April 3, 1856

This week we present a host of new materials of note, including additional Dime Novels and Story Paper issues as well more issues of The Irishman newspaper from the Joseph McGarrity Collection. As well, correspondence about the McGarrity Collection in Falvey Memorial Library is made available online for the first time. Finally, the first digital offerings from the new James Wheeler Collection of Polar Exploration are available; these include a scrapbook, letter, and photographs of the Philadelphia Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane as well as other materials with more to come in future weeks.

Front, typescript, Letter, To: Rev. D. P. Falvey, O.S.A. From: Éamon de Valera, July 4, 1948

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

Front cover, Dennis Mulcahy, janitor of the Harlem flats / by Peter Pad

Dennis Mulcahy, janitor of the Harlem flats / by Peter Pad
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:651004]

Periodicals

[121] p., Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner, v. XXV, no. 632, July 7, 1877

Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:651695]

Detail p. 89, Golden Days : for Boys and Girls, v. VIII, no. 6, January 8, 1887

Golden Days (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:651237]

Philadelphia Home Weekly (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:648972]

Portland Transcript (5 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:649817?lookfor=title%3Adec]

Weekly Novelette (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:651595]

James Wheeler Collection of Polar Exploration

Portrait, carte de visite portrait of Dr. E. K. Kane, undated.

Portrait, carte de visite portrait of Dr. E. K. Kane, undated
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:651177]

Insert, Elisha Kent Kane Scrapbook, 1854-1857

Elisha Kent Kane Scrapbook, 1854-1857
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:651817]

Letter, To: A. McLellan From: E. K. Kane, April 3, 1856
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:651189]

Portrait, carte de visite of Elisha Kent Kane, undated
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:651183]

Portrait engraving of Sir John Franklin, Capt. R. N., 1830
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:651784]

Portrait photograph of Sir George Nares, circa 1880

Portrait photograph of Sir George Nares, circa 1880
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:651778]

Joseph McGarrity Collection

Newspapers

The Irishman (154 issues added in total for January-August 1919)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:615318]

Villanova Digital Collection

Falvey Memorial Library

Typescript, Letter, To: Sean T. O’Kelly. From: Rev. Daniel P. Falvey, O.S.A., October 11, 1948

Correspondence (Joseph McGarrity), 1940-1948 (5 items added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:652019]

A few more Dime Novels and Story Paper issues newly available this week!

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

Swipes and the ghosts / by “Frank.”
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:650984]

Front cover, Diamond Dick, Jr. on deck

Diamond Dick, Jr. (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:641617]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:641577]

Periodicals

Detail, p. 245, Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner, v. XVI, no. 406, March 8, 1873

Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:651715]

p. [65], Golden Days : for Boys and Girls, v. VIII, no. 5, January 1, 1887

Golden Days (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:651217]

Detail, p. 5, The New York Ledger, v. XXVIII, no. 11, May 4, 1872

New York Ledger (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:650880]

Philadelphia Home Weekly (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:650085]

Detail, p. 257, The Portland transcript, v. XIX, no. 33, Saturday, Nov. 24, 1855

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

Recently added to the digital library offerings this week, we offer more story paper issues, more dime novels, and issues of the Saturday Globe newspaper!

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

Diamond Dick, Jr. (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:641701]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:642300]

Swipes’ picnic / by “Frank.”
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:650964]

Periodicals

Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:650269]

Golden Days (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:649138]

New York Ledger (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:650868]

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

Detail, [145] p., The Weekly novelette, v. IV, no. 10, Saturday, November 20, 1858

Weekly Novelette (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:648748]

Newspapers

Detail, [1] p., Saturday Globe, v. 18, no.13, Saturday, August 13, 1898

Saturday Globe (12 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:646198]

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]

Engraving, [Home Rule], 1882.

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

The artist’s love / by Emma D.E.N. Southworth.
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:649899]

Diamond Dick’s divvy; or, The rival outlaw chiefs / by W. B. Lawson
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:641433]

Diamond Dick, Jr.’s prize tangle; or, A queer play at cross purposes / by W.B. Lawson
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:650131]

Tom Wright at Bartlett’s Ranch; or, Bucking the cowboys of the great Lone Land / by Robert Steel
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:649697]

Periodicals

Boys’ World (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:647293]

[33] p., Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner, v. IX, no. 211, June 12, 1869

Golden Days : for Boys and Girls, v. VIII, no. 1, December 4, 1886

Golden Days (volume index + 2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:650112]

New York Ledger (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:648147]

Front cover, detail, Saturday Night, v. V, no. 52, Saturday, September 19, 1868

Saturday Night (1 issue)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:649170]

People’s Home Journal (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:648299]

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

Image Collection

Engraving, “Home Rule”, 1882
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:650589]

Villanova Student author collection

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Thesis (15 added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Search/NewItem?range=5&department=&filter%5B%5D=format%3A%22Villanova+Student+Authorship%22]

More newly digitized content from the end of the spring 2021 semester including more story paper issues, more dime novels, an early driving map of the Philly area from 1884, a few items from the Society of The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, some of the 2021 Undergraduate Honors Theses, and some photographs of the Villanova Wildcat.

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

Diamond Dick’s deuce-ace; or, The freebooters of Flathead Lake / by W. B. Lawson

Diamond Dick, Jr. (3 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:646199]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:641270]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:641473]

Betrothed for a day : or, Queenie Trevalyn’s Love Test / by Laura Jean Libbey.
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:647722]

Love’s labor won / by E.D.E.N. Southworth.
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:646739]

Phil at bay; or, True Yankee grit / by the author of “Phil and Ralph.”
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:643503]

Gentleman Joe’s long shot; or, Defying death in duty’s name / by the author of “Gentleman Joe”.
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:649659]

Non-Fiction

Some castles in Spain / by Geo. William Curtis
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:648191]

Periodicals

Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner, v. IX, no. 209, May 29, 1869

Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:648988]

New York Ledger (3 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:648123]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:646287]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:648135]

Philadelphia Home Weekly (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:648980]

Portland Transcript (volume index + 7 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:649817]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:642691]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:649817?lookfor=title%3Amay]

Selection, p. [1], Saturday Night, v. V, no. 51, Saturday, September 12, 1868

Saturday Night (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:647315]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:649158]

Police News (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:386627]

The Weekly Novelette (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:647249]

Leisure Hours (1 issue added):
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:638341]

Boy’s World (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:646299]

The Society of The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick for The Relief of Emigrants from Ireland

Program, Testimonial Dinner to The Honorable Robert E. Briscoe, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland, April 23, 1957

Program, Testimonial Dinner to The Honorable Robert E. Briscoe, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland, April 23, 1957
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:649846]

Program, 139th Annual Banquet, Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick, March 17, 1910
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:649818]

Photograph, 185th Annual Banquet, Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, March 17, 1956
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:649858]

Rambles, Travels, and Maps

Southwest segment, Map, New driving map of Philadelphia and surroundings, 1884

Map, New driving map of Philadelphia and surroundings, 1884
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:649866]

Villanova student author

Undergraduate Honors Theses

2021 Theses (6 added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:650093]

Villanova Digital Collection

Villanova Wildcat

https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:649158

Villanova Wildcat (5 items added):
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:620489?type=AllFields&filter%5B%5D=topic_facet%3A%22Wildcat+%28Villanova+University%29+–+Photographs%22]

Program, Villanova Interscholastic, Track and Field, Saturday May 11, 1940

Here is an overview of the the newly digitized, online this week! Noteworthy are early newspaper issues, a dissertation by the Augustinian author Guillaume Bonjour, O.S.A. from 1696, more dime novels, and Villanova track and field programs.

Contributions from Augustinian Theologians and Scholars

Dissertatio de nomine patriarchae Josephi a pharaone imposito in defensionem vulgatae editionis …
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:635479]

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

The twin lieutenants / by Alexander Dumas
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:648039]

Diamond Dick, Jr.’s tricky telegrams; or, The new schoolmarm at Sugar Notch / by W. B. Lawson
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:641310]

Ralph’s flight from Governor’s Island; or, A friend in the enemy camp / by Beverley Kennon
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:643687]

Periodicals

Boys’ World (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:647269]

New York Ledger (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:647987]

Portland Transcript (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:642703]

Saturday Night (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:646251]

Newspapers

The London Gazette, no. 905, from Monday, July 20, to Thursday, July 23, 1674

The London Gazette (3 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:648587]

Villanova Digital Collection

College and University Functions

Villanova Singers (Invitation), April 14, 1963
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:646347]

Track and Field

Track and Field Interscholastic Programs (4 items added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:640803]

Photograph, Sister Liberty Bell, 2003

The Sister Liberty Bell photos (5 photos added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:648527]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:648551]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:648521]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:648539]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:648533]

Signature, Letter, To: Mrs. Mary C. Audenried From: William T. Sherman, April 21, 1885

This week sees the addition of materials digitized recently, including more Dime Novels and Story Papers and newly acquired letters written from William T. Sherman to Mrs. Mary C. Audenried, widow of Sherman’s longtime aide-de-camp.

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Diamond Dick, Jr.’s substitute; or, A blockade that was raised / by W. B. Lawson
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:641270]

Love’s labor won / by E.D.E.N. Southworth
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:646739]

Phil on special duty; or, Fun and mystery in camp / by Beverley Kennon
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:643647]

Periodicals

Weekly Novelette (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:647249]

Boys’ World (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:646299]

Detail, [1] p., The New York Ledger, v. XX, no. 5, April 2, 1864

New York Ledger (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:646287]

Portland Transcript (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:642691]

Front cover, Sunday Magazine of the Sunday Record-Herald, November 17, 1912

Sunday Magazine of the Sunday Record-Herald (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:647327]

Sunday Magazine of the Sunday Star (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:646564]

Front cover, Sunday Magazine of the New-York Tribune, July 5, 1908

Sunday Magazine of the New-York Tribune (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:646612]

Detail, p. 8, The illustrated police news, law courts and weekly record, v. 32, no. 829, September 16, 1882

The Illustrated Police News, Law Courts and Weekly (4 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:646719]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:646699]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:646679]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:646659]

Manuscript

Letter, To: Mrs. Mary C. Audenried From: William T. Sherman, November 2, 1886

William T. Sherman Correspondence (5 letters added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:647248]