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Answers to the dime novel poll! Plus my exhibit
Finally!
A couple of days ago, I posted a two-question poll asking trivia questions about dime novels, since I was head-down in them.
Answers, and my exhibit, below the cut.
1. Beadle & Company published the first dime novel in 1860. 5 years later, in 1865, how many dime novels had they printed? (This is individual books, not titles.)
The 6 of you (as of this moment) who picked "4,000,000" were CORRECT! Yes, FOUR MILLION in five years.
I mean, it didn't hurt that Beadle & Co baled them up, stacked the bales like cordwood, and shipped 'em via rail to the soldiers fighting the Civil War, but the industry was phenomenally huge anyway.
2. What was the first dime novel to be published?
I accept either answer #2, Malaeska: the Indian Wife by Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, or #7, "Trick question! The first dime novel was a reprint!" The first dime novel was a reprint of the 1839 serial Malaeska [abridge long title here]. So yes, the very first dime novel was written by a woman.
Now, if you're interested in dime novels and want to learn factoids like that, you can either show up at my workplace after Tuesday, when it goes up, or you can just download this PDF. (BTW, please no pointing out errors--it's too late. :D)
I don't have any actual dime novels on display because of a hassle involved with getting the cases we own moved, plus the pulp they're printed on is incredibly crappy and they're disintegrating as you handle them, so I don't want them exposed to the environment and vibrations in the exhibit space (near the front doors). But I have scanned a bunch from our collection and found a bunch of ones scanned by other institutions and released online with copyright clearance* and put them on giant posters that will be put up on the walls of the exhibit space.
The PDF has been compressed mightily to be about 5MB, down from the 220MB of the original. The jpg artifacts are not to be seen on the posters, which are about 36"x25".
* Anything published in 1924 and earlier in the US is copyright-free, but you try convincing universities of that if they've invested a bunch of effort into scanning fragile documents. I only grabbed images form ones that had clear language indicating they were public domain or Creative Commons.
A couple of days ago, I posted a two-question poll asking trivia questions about dime novels, since I was head-down in them.
Answers, and my exhibit, below the cut.
1. Beadle & Company published the first dime novel in 1860. 5 years later, in 1865, how many dime novels had they printed? (This is individual books, not titles.)
The 6 of you (as of this moment) who picked "4,000,000" were CORRECT! Yes, FOUR MILLION in five years.
I mean, it didn't hurt that Beadle & Co baled them up, stacked the bales like cordwood, and shipped 'em via rail to the soldiers fighting the Civil War, but the industry was phenomenally huge anyway.
2. What was the first dime novel to be published?
I accept either answer #2, Malaeska: the Indian Wife by Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, or #7, "Trick question! The first dime novel was a reprint!" The first dime novel was a reprint of the 1839 serial Malaeska [abridge long title here]. So yes, the very first dime novel was written by a woman.
Now, if you're interested in dime novels and want to learn factoids like that, you can either show up at my workplace after Tuesday, when it goes up, or you can just download this PDF. (BTW, please no pointing out errors--it's too late. :D)
I don't have any actual dime novels on display because of a hassle involved with getting the cases we own moved, plus the pulp they're printed on is incredibly crappy and they're disintegrating as you handle them, so I don't want them exposed to the environment and vibrations in the exhibit space (near the front doors). But I have scanned a bunch from our collection and found a bunch of ones scanned by other institutions and released online with copyright clearance* and put them on giant posters that will be put up on the walls of the exhibit space.
The PDF has been compressed mightily to be about 5MB, down from the 220MB of the original. The jpg artifacts are not to be seen on the posters, which are about 36"x25".
* Anything published in 1924 and earlier in the US is copyright-free, but you try convincing universities of that if they've invested a bunch of effort into scanning fragile documents. I only grabbed images form ones that had clear language indicating they were public domain or Creative Commons.
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