Beadle and Adams Dime Novel Digitization Project -- Information

Copyright

The House of Beadle & Adams and its Dime and Nickel Novels: The Story of a Vanished Literature by Albert Johannsen is copyright of the University of Oklahoma Press (c1950). Permission to reproduce any part of the print or online version must be obtained from the University of Oklahoma Press.

Project Information

The Beadle and Adams Dime Novel Digitization Project is a multi-year initiative by the Northern Illinois University Libraries to further research on the topic of early American literature and Dime Novels. Concentration will be placed on digitizing The House of Beadle and Adams and its Dime and Nickel Novels, the landmark bibliography by Albert Johannsen. The digitized bibliography will provide a framework for the digitization of the Beadle's publications held in the NIU Libraries. The NIU Libraries hold Albert Johannsen's own collection of Beadle & Adams Dime Novels and other popular literature of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. This collection includes Johannsen's notes, papers, dry plates, and memorabilia from when he wrote The House of Beadle and Adams and its Dime and Nickel Novels and his career as a petrologist and professor. For more information on dime novels, see the introduction to this work.

Please be advised that this bibliography is in the process of being digitized. Project staff will add additional material as it becomes available. Material currently available online is as follows:

• Volume 1 -- Preface, credits, abbreviations table, figures 1-24 (completed 11/12/99)
• Volume 1 -- chapters 1-13 (completed 11/12/99)
• Volume 1 -- Numerical listing for the Dime Novels series (completed 11/12/99)
• Volume 1 -- Numerical listing for the New Dime Novels series (completed 11/18/99)
• Volume 1 -- Numerical listing for the Fifteen Cent Novels series (completed 11/18/99)
• Beadle's Half-Dime Novelettes (completed 11/23/99)
• Beadle's American Library (completed 11/23/99)
• Beadle's American Sixpenny Library (completed 11/23/99)
• Special Publication (London) "Maum Guinea" (completed 11/23/99)
• Beadle's Sixpenny Tales (completed 11/23/99)
• American Library Tales (completed 11/23/99)
• Beadle's Standard Library of Romance (completed 11/23/99)
• Beadle's Dime Tales, Tradition and Romance of Border and Revolutionary Times (completed 11/23/99)
• Irwin P. Beadle's Ten Cent Novels (completed 11/29/99)
• Irwin P. Beadle's Ten Cent Stories (completed 11/29/99)
• Figures 25-40 (completed 12/02/99)
• American Tales (completed 12/13/99)
• Beadle's Dime Library of Choice Fiction (completed 12/15/99)
• Beadle's Dime Fiction (completed 12/15/99)
• Dime Classic Stories (completed 12/16/99)
• Irwin P. Beadle's American Novels (completed 12/16/99)
• Figures 41-50 (completed 01/04/00)
• Irwin's Six Penny Tales (completed 02/13/00)
• Popular Fifty Cent Books (completed 03/04/00)
• Frank Starr's American Novels (completed 03/28/00)
• New Twenty-five Cent Novels (completed 05/02/00)
• Frank Starr's Fifteen Cent Illustrated Novels (completed 05/12/00)
• New and Old Friends (completed (05/12/00)
• Boys' Books of Romance and Adventure (completed 05/15/00)
• Pocket Novels (completed 09/13/00)
• Cheap Edition of Popular Authors (completed 01/10/02)
• Figures 51-169 (completed 01/10/02)
• Twenty Cent Novels (completed 01/14/02)
• The Fireside Library (completed 04/04/02)
• Frank Starr's Ten Cent Pocket Library (completed 04/04/02)
• Frank Starr's New York Library (completed 04/12/02)
• Beadle's New York Dime Library, The New York Dime Library (completed 06/12/02)
• Beadle's Dime Library (completed 07/19/02)
• The Sunnyside Library (completed 09/20/02)
• Beadle's Half-Dime Library (completed 12/16/02)
• Waverley Library, quarto edition [completed 04/29/03]
• Waverley Library, octavo edition [completed 05/28/03]
• Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport Story, and Adventure, quarto edition [completed 06/12/03]
• Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport Story, and Adventure, octavo edition [completed 07/14/03]
• Pocket Library [completed 09/04/03]
• Beadle's Popular Library [completed 09/04/03]
• Miscellaneous Publications [completed 09/30/03]
• Books Other Than Novels [completed 09/30/03]
• Beadle's Dime Biographical Library [completed 09/30/03]
• Beadle's American Sixpenny Biographies (London) [completed 09/30/03]
• Men of the Time [completed 09/30/03]
• Lives of Great Americans [completed 09/30/03]
• Beadle's Dime Handbooks [completed 09/30/03]
• Family Handbooks [completed 09/30/03]
• Young People's Series [completed 09/30/03]
• Dime Handbooks of Games and Pastimes [completed 09/30/03]
• Trade Handbooks [completed 09/30/03]
• Irwin P. Beadle & Co.'s Handbooks [completed 09/30/03]
• Beadle's Useful Library (London) [completed 09/30/03]
• Irwin P. Beadle's Songbooks [completed 09/30/03]
• Beadle's Dime Songbooks [completed 09/30/03]
• Miscellaneous Songbooks [completed 09/30/03]
• Patriotic Songbooks [completed 09/30/03]
• The "American Series" Songsters [completed 09/30/03]
• Beadle's One Cent Songbooks [completed 09/30/03]
• Beadle's Dime Pocket Songster [completed 09/30/03]
• Frank Starr's Songbooks [completed 09/30/03]
• Beadle's Half-Dime Singer's Library [completed 09/30/03]
• Projected but Apparently Unpublished Songbooks [completed 09/30/03]
• Beadle's Dime Dialogs [completed 09/30/03]
• Beadle's Dime Speakers [completed 09/30/03]
• Miscellaneous-- Introduction [completed 09/30/03]
• Beadle's Dime Book of Fun [completed 09/30/03]
• Joke Books [completed 09/30/03]
• Beadle's Dime Baseball Player [completed 09/30/03]
• Books of the Civil War [completed 09/30/03]
• New National Tax Laws [completed 09/30/03]
• Beadle's Dime Year Book and Almanac [completed 09/30/03]
• Periodicals -- Introduction [completed 09/30/03]
• The Youth's Casket [completed 09/30/03]
• The Home [completed 09/30/03]
• Beadle's Monthly [completed 09/30/03]
• The Saturday Journal [completed 09/30/03]
• Beadle's Weekly, The Banner Weekly [completed 09/30/03]
• Belles and Beaux [completed 09/30/03]
• Girls of To-day, The New York Mirror [completed 09/30/03]
• The Young New Yorker [completed 09/30/03]
• Part IV -- Introduction [completed 09/30/03]
• Anonymous Novels and Handbooks [completed 09/30/03]
• Novels Credited to the Author of Some Other Book [completed 09/30/03]
• Unidentified Biographies of Authors, alphabetically arranged [completed 09/30/03]

Project Staff

• Lynne Thomas, Curator, Rare Books & Special Collections (2004-present)
• Brian Conant, Research Associate, Digital Projects (2001-present)
• Tara L. Dirst, Technology Coordinator, Digital Projects (2001-April 2007)
• Anitha Paruchuri, Research Associate, Digital Projects (2001-present)
• Samuel T. Huang, Former Curator, Rare Books & Special Collections (1999-2000)
• Mark A. Williams, Former Archives Specialist, Rare Books & Special Collections (1999-2000)

For any questions about the project, please contact Lynne Thomas, Curator, Rare Books & Special Collections

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