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Nickels and Dimes: From the Collections of Johannsen and LeBlanc Nickels and Dimes: From the Collections of Johannsen and LeBlanc

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Publication Date

1878 - 1904
(years)

Genre

  • Humorous stories (29) + -
  • School and sports stories (8) + -
  • Stage and theatre stories (4) + -
  • Bildungsromans (1) + -
  • Sea stories (1) + -
  • Sports stories (1) + -

Series

  • Five cent wide awake library (30) + -
  • Pluck and luck (1) + -

Author

  • Pad, Peter (16) + -
  • Teaser, Tom (8) + -
  • Smiley, Sam (2) + -
  • Ah-look, Commodore (1) + -
  • Draper, Allyn (1) + -
  • Ed (1) + -
  • Hemyng, Bracebridge, 1841-1901 (1) + -

Publisher

  • Tousey, Frank (31) + -

Topic

  • Schoolboys (8) + -
  • Dwarfs (6) + -
  • African Americans (4) + -
  • Blackface entertainers (2) + -
  • Blacks (2) + -
  • Chinese (2) + -
  • Monkeys (2) + -
  • Abusive women (1) + -
  • Accidents (1) + -
  • Actors (1) + -
  • Alcoholics (1) + -
  • Boarding schools (1) + -
  • Clergy (1) + -
  • Clumsiness (1) + -
  • College students (1) + -
  • Conduct of life (1) + -
  • Dandies (1) + -
  • Day laborers (1) + -
  • Diaries (1) + -
  • English (1) + -
  • Escapes (1) + -
  • Extras (Actors) (1) + -
  • Female offenders (1) + -
  • Fires (1) + -
  • Household employees (1) + -
  • Immigrants (1) + -
  • Irish Americans (1) + -
  • Merchants (1) + -
  • People with disabilities (1) + -
  • Rowing (1) + -
  • Sales personnel (1) + -
  • Schools (1) + -
  • Shoe shiners (1) + -
  • Sports rivalries (1) + -
  • Tramps (1) + -
  • Ventriloquists (1) + -
  • Young men (1) + -
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Character

  • Shortys (Fictitious characters) (6) + -
  • Bounce, Tommy (Fictitious character) (4) + -
  • Yale College (1718-1887) (1) + -

Place

  • New York (N.Y.) (9) + -
  • Atlantic Coast (North America) (1) + -
  • Atlantic Coast (South America) (1) + -
  • England (1) + -
  • France (1) + -
  • London (England) (1) + -
  • Long Island (N.Y.) (1) + -
  • New Haven (Conn.) (1) + -
  • Pennsylvania (1) + -
  • United States (1) + -

Format

  • Nickel weeklies (31) + -

Collection

  • Edward T. LeBlanc Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (31) + -

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Dick Lightheart
Shortys on the road, or, In the old business just for fun
The parson's boy, or, The innocent one of the family
Young Dick Plunket, or, The trials and tribulations of Ebenezer Crow
Johnny Brown & Co. at school, or, The deacon's boy at his old tricks
The comical adventures of two dudes
Little Tommy Bounce, or, Something like his dad
A bad boy's note-book
Behind the scenes, or, Out with a New York combination
The little joker, or, Always ready for fun
Shorty kids, or, Three chips of three old blocks
Shortys' country store
Hildebrandt Fitzgum, or, My quiet little cousin
Cheeky and Chipper, or, Through thick and thin
Bob Rollick, the Yankee notion drummer
Bob Rollick, or, What was he born for?
Tommy Bounce, Jr., in college
Tommy Bounce, Jr., or, A chip of the old block
Bob Short, or, One of our boys
Shoo-Fly at school
Shoo-Fly, or, Nobody's moke
The rival schools, or, Fighting for the championship
Stump, or, "Little, but, oh, my!"
Shorty and the Count, or, The two great unmashed
Jim Jams, or, Jack of all trades
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