Summary:
Villanova University's Special Collections contans a significant number of primary and secondary sources related to the Great War. Collection strengths include: pro-German English language newspapers; other German-language newspapers; materials related to Sir Richard Casement; Ireland in the war; the Easter Rising; Joseph McGarrity and the funding of the Irish Rebellion; postcards; scrapbooks; and popular and children's literature about the war.
Villanova University's Digital Library provides fulltext access to many of the above materials. In addition, the Digital Library has digitized and hosts a significant number of Great War materials from institutional Digital Partners as well as specific digital donations from individuals. Most materials are available under a Creative Commons License.
Notable Collections:
Edward D. Forman Postcards [http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:336023]
Gefreiter Heinrich Möllering Papers [http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:344414]
Perkasie Historical Society [http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:345338]
Steed Scrapbooks [http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:290235]
Notable Individual Resources:
The Brighton Boys in the Trenches / by Lieutenant James R. Driscoll. [http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:95446]
A Chronicle of the War of Nations 1914-15 / by Indian Nationalist Society, Bagdad [http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:138532]
Das Dienstags=blatt (newspaper, 92 issues) [http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:344779]
Los Dramas de la Guerra (dime novel, 62 issues) [http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:308142]
The Fatherland (newspaper, 137 issues) [http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:145655]
The Fra: for Philistines and Roycrofters (magazine, 112 issues) [http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:81649]
The Gaelic American (newspaper, 1914-1918) [http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:266848]
La Guerre Infernale (dime novel, 5 issues) [http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:292001]
"Ireland, Germany and Europe" / Casement. [http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:67764]
Jules Verbeeke: De oorlogsspion (dime novel, 25 issues) [http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:286188]
The Lusitania's last voyage (author's copy + pamphlets) [http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:132952]
Murray French Edwards scrapbook, ca. 1910-1918 [http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:315218]
Pennsylvanische Staats-Gazette (newspaper, 7 issues) [http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:344415]
Perkasie World War I Tobacco Fund Book [http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:345016]
The Public Ledger Color Supplement (4 issues) [http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:300783]
Der Tag (newspaper, 11 issues) [http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:339630]
The VItal Issue (newspaper, 119 issues) [http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:150961]
Vossische Zeitung (newspaper, 57 issues) [http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:350095]
With the Ulster division in France [http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:132801]
Who lifted the lid off of hell? / by Elbert Hubbard. [http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:91523]
The World War (newspaper, 89 issues) [http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:153790]
