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Publication Date

1861 - 1927
(years)

Genre

  • Bildungsromans (12) + -
  • Humorous stories (4) + -
  • Adventure stories (3) + -
  • Detective and mystery stories (3) + -
  • Western stories (3) + -
  • Romance fiction (2) + -
  • Domestic fiction (1) + -
  • Historical fiction (1) + -
  • Sea stories (1) + -
  • Stage and theatre stories (1) + -
  • Success stories (1) + -
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Series

  • Fame and fortune weekly (9) + -
  • Five cent wide awake library (8) + -
  • Beadle's dime novels (2) + -
  • Pluck and luck (2) + -
  • Waverley library (quarto edition) (2) + -
  • Beadle's new dime novels (1) + -

Author

  • Self-made man, 1853-1915 (9) + -
  • Garne, Gaston (8) + -
  • Pad, Peter (4) + -
  • Draper, Allyn (2) + -
  • King, Ed (2) + -
  • Ah-look, Commodore (1) + -
  • Appleton, Horace (1) + -
  • Augusta, Clara (1) + -
  • Clyde, Kit (1) + -
  • Fenton, Ralph, Colonel (1) + -
  • Hemyng, Bracebridge, 1841-1901 (1) + -
  • Penne, Agile (1) + -
  • Royal, Ralph (1) + -
  • Stevens, D. W., 1849-1901 (1) + -
  • Sumner, Charles Pinckney, 1776-1839 (1) + -
  • Townley, Arthur (1) + -
  • Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller, 1831-1885 (1) + -
  • Wade, William (1) + -
  • Williams, Gus, 1847-1915 (1) + -
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Publisher

  • Tousey, Frank (12) + -
  • Wolff, Harry E. (6) + -
  • Beadle and Adams (1872-1898) (3) + -
  • Beadle and Company (2) + -
  • Westbury Publishing Co., Inc. (1) + -

Topic

  • Fires (3) + -
  • Inheritance and succession (3) + -
  • Business (2) + -
  • Chinese (2) + -
  • Courage (2) + -
  • Disappointment (2) + -
  • Employees (2) + -
  • Farmers (2) + -
  • Friendship (2) + -
  • Heiresses (2) + -
  • Man-woman relationships (2) + -
  • Merchants (2) + -
  • Railroads (2) + -
  • Young businesspeople (2) + -
  • Bankers (1) + -
  • Blackface entertainers (1) + -
  • Brigands and robbers (1) + -
  • Cobleskill (N.Y.) (1) + -
  • Dueling (1) + -
  • Dwarfs (1) + -
  • Fire (1) + -
  • Frontier and pioneer life (1) + -
  • Guardian and ward (1) + -
  • Horses (1) + -
  • Household employees (1) + -
  • Indian captivities (1) + -
  • Indians of North America (1) + -
  • Kidnapping (1) + -
  • Lost children (1) + -
  • Mines and mineral resources (1) + -
  • Murder (1) + -
  • Oranges (1) + -
  • Petroleum (1) + -
  • Piracy (1) + -
  • Railroad accidents (1) + -
  • Railroad engineers (1) + -
  • Railroad trains (1) + -
  • Revenge (1) + -
  • Robbery (1) + -
  • Romanies (1) + -
  • Royal houses (1) + -
  • Shoe shiners (1) + -
  • Shooters of firearms (1) + -
  • Slave trade (1) + -
  • Suicidal behavior (1) + -
  • Traveling sales personnel (1) + -
  • Unrequited love (1) + -
  • Ventriloquists (1) + -
  • Vigilantes (1) + -
  • Women heroes (1) + -
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Character

  • Chin Chin (Fictitious character) (2) + -
  • Harkaway, Jack, Jr. (Fictitious character) (1) + -
  • Shortys (Fictitious characters) (1) + -

Place

  • California (3) + -
  • New England (2) + -
  • Africa (1) + -
  • Chester (N.Y.) (1) + -
  • Colorado (1) + -
  • France (1) + -
  • Maine (1) + -
  • New Jersey (1) + -
  • New York (N.Y.) (1) + -
  • New York (State) (1) + -
  • Turkey (1) + -
  • Utah (1) + -
  • Vermont (1) + -
  • West Indies (1) + -
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Format

  • Nickel weeklies (21) + -
  • Dime novels (3) + -

Collection

  • Edward T. LeBlanc Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (18) + -
  • Johannsen Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (6) + -

Query

  • (-) *:*

Enabled Filters

  • (-) = Orphans

Sort

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Dick, "I will," or, The plucky fight of a boy orphan
Master of himself, or, A boy's fight in the world
Little Mac, the boy engineer
Joe Dodger, the boy ventriloquist
Young Jack Harkaway in Turkey
A stroke of luck, or, The boy who made money in oil
Jack Merry's grit, or, Making a man of himself
Famous at fourteen, or, The boy who made a great name
A start in life, or, A bright boy's ambition
After a big stake, or, Brains against brawn
A sharp boy, or, Making his mark in business
Joseph Jump and his old blind nag
Dick, "I will," or, The plucky fight of a boy orphan
A start in life, or, A bright boy's ambition
A rolling stone, or, The brightest boy on record
Shorty in search of his dad
Will the waif, or, From bootblack to merchant
Myrtle, the child of the prairie
Chips and Chin Chin, the two orphans
Chips and Chin Chin
The water waif
Sinned against, or, The Winthrop pride
Orphan Nell, the orange girl, or, The lost heir
Madge Wylde, the young man's ward, or, Lights and shadows of orphan life

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