Items | Digital Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

A Unique Stunt
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing female nurses standing by a handcart used for the ALA's book drive. The woman in the foreground wears a handmade sign, "Magazines Wanted," around her midsection. The curved line in the middle of the image is from a scratch on the glass plate.
Colonia Hospital Library, Rahway, New Jersey
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing a female librarian and four soldiers using a military hospital library
Magazine Corner, Hospital Library, Camp Dodge, Iowa
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing four soldiers reading books and other printed material in a military base library in Iowa
Hospital Ward, Camp McClellan, Alabama
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing convalescent soldiers reading books donated by the ALA during World War I
LOOKING FOR A JOB?
Image | 1919 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide caption reads: "LOOKING FOR A JOB? New work or advancement in your old trade? The Greenwich Library Has up-to-date books on Business - on the Trades and Professions. DROP IN! ALL SERVICES FREE."
Library service of the American Library Association at the U.S.General Hospital No. 6, Fort McPherson, Georgia
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsServicemen using the library. Additional caption reads: Reading in the Post Chapel Library. The A. L. A. has placed libraries in 208 hospitals. The men in hospitals and camps here and overseas need your magazines. As soon as you have read them, place a stamp on the notice on the cover, and mail.
In the Library of the American Library Association at U.S. General Hospital No. 16, New Haven, Connecticut
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsServicemen using the library. Additional caption reads: The A.L.A. has placed libraries in 230 hospitals. The men in hospitals and camps here and overseas need your magazines. As soon as you have read them, place a stamp on the notice on the cover, and mail.
How the American Library Association brings books and magazines to the bedside in the army and navy hospitals
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsThree wounded servicemen select books off a cart. Additional caption reads: With her book truck the Librarian goes through the Wards to serve the men who cannot come to the library. The A.L.A. has placed libraries in 249 hospitals. The men in hospitals are still looking for your magazines. As soon as you have read them, place a stamp on the notice or the cover and mail.
Camp Library of the American Library Association at Camp Funston, Kansas
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsSoldiers lingering outside a camp library. Additional caption reads: The A.L.A. gives library service to 860 army, navy and marine corps camps and stations, and 208 hospitals in America. Libraries have been placed on 911 vessels and more than two million books have been sent overseas. The men in hospitals ana camps here and overseas need your magazines. As soon as you have r...
Library Service of the American Library Association at the Base Hospital, Camp Dix, New Jersey
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsServicemen using the library. Additional caption reads: Reading in the Red Cross House. The A.L.A. has placed libraries in 208 hospitals. The men in hospitals and camps here and overseas need your magazines. As soon as you have read them, place a stamp on the notice on the cover, and mail.
Signal Corps Photographers before Photo Collection, Camp Travis
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing three photographers of the Signal Corps seated in front of the photo collection of the library at Camp Travis, Texas
Bedside service of the American Library Association in the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, Greenville, South Carolina
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsWith her book truck the librarian brings to the man in bed the book he wants. The A. L. A. has placed libraries in 249 hospitals. The men in hospitals are still looking for your magazines. As soon as you have read them, place a stamp on the notice on the cover, and mail.
Bedside service of the American Library Association at the U.S. General Hospital No. 43, National Soldiers' Home, Virginia
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsLibrarian watching men read in wheelchairs. Additional caption reads: The A.L.A. has placed libraries in 208 hospitals. The men in hospitals and camps here and overseas need your magazines. As soon as you have read them, place a stamp on the notice on the cover, and mail.
Bedside service of the American Library Association in the U.S. Debarkation Hospital No. 5, New York City.
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsMen reading in bed and picking books out on a book truck. Additional caption reads: With her book truck, the librarian brings to the man's bed the book he wants. The A.L.A. has placed libraries in 208 hospitals.The men in hospitals and camps here and overseas need your magazines. As soon as you have read them, place a stamp on the notice on the cover, and mail.
Camp Library at Camp Bowie, Texas
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsExterior of the camp library. Caption reads: Camp Library, American Library Association, Camp Bowie Texas
Library service of the American Library Association in the Base Hospital, Camp Mills, New York
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsThree men reading in a library. Additional caption reads: Reading in the Red Cross House. The A.L.A. has placed libraries in 230 hospitals. The men in hospitals and camps here and overseas need your magazines. As soon as you have read them, place a stamp on the notice on the cover, and mail.
In the Library of the American Library Association, Paris Island, South Carolina
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsMen reading at a table in the camp library. Additional caption reads: The A.L.A. gives service to 860 Army, Navy and Marine Corps camps and stations, and 208 hospitals. Libraries have been placed on 911 vessels and more than two million books have been sent overseas.The men in hospitals and camps here and overseas need your magazines. As soon as you have read them, place a s...
Soldier's Club Room, Camp Sheridan, ALA
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing soldiers reading inside a club room at Camp Sheridan, Alabama
Merchant seamen find opportunities for study in technical books supplied by the American Library Association.
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsMen reading in bunk beds. Additional caption reads: The A.L.A. furnishes free crew's libraries to American merchant ships and through representatives at principal ports provides free library service to American seamen.
American Library Association books boarding Merchant Marine vessel at New Orleans, Louisiana
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsMen loading boxes on a ship. Additional caption reads: The A.L.A. furnishes free crew's libraries to American merchant ships and through representatives at principal ports provides free library service to American seamen.
In the Library of the American Library Association at Camp Sherman, Ohio.
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsSoldiers reading. Additional caption reads: The A.L.A. gives library service to 860 army, navy and marine corps camps and stations and 208 hospitals in America. Libraries have been placed on 911 vessels and more than two million books have been sent overseas. The men in hospitals and camps here and overseas need your magazines. As soon as you have read them, place a stamp on...
Camp Library at Camp Pike, Arkansas (Exterior)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsCaption reads: Camp Library, American Library Association.??? Camp Fremont, California.
In the Library of the American Library Association at Letterman U.S. General Hospital, San Francisco, California
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsWounded men using the library. Additional caption reads: The A.L.A. has placed libraries in 208 hospitals.The men in hospitals and camps here and overseas need your magazines. As soon as you have read them, place a stamp on the notice on the cover, and mail.
Recreation Hall and Library, 44th Infantry, Camp Lewis
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing soldiers reading inside the Recreation Hall and Library of Camp Lewis, WA
Interior Camp Gordon "GA" Library, Mags. & Maps Popular
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing the interior of an army camp library with several soldiers reading
Wanted: 500,000 BOOKS
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide depicting a wounded serviceman being read aloud to by another serviceman, and a librarian standing behind them holding books. Caption reads: "Wanted: 500,000 BOOKS for American Soldiers in Germany and France. Take FRESH FICTION to the PUBLIC LIBRARY for shipment overseas in the tonnage of the American Library Association."
Jobs for Soldiers
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide reads "Jobs for Soldiers; How to get the man and the job together; Let Binghamton Public Library Help You Fit the Man to His Job."
Ex Servicemen Anywhere
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide with the caption "Ex servicemen anywhere may borrow books free from their local public library or the state library commission or the American Library Association; 78 E. Washington St. Chicago ILL."
Read!
Image | 1920 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide featuring words "Read! Stories of travel, adventure, romance, nature or history. - all FREE at the Fuller Park Library."
Sorting Second Class Mail, Camp Sherman Library
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing two soldiers sorting printed materials for the ALA library at Camp Sherman, OH
Library service of the American Library Association at the U.S. General Hospital No. 6, Fort McPherson, Georgia
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsServicemen using the library. Additional caption reads: Reading in the Post Chapel Library. The A. L. A. has placed libraries in 208 hospitals. The men in hospitals and camps here and overseas need your magazines. As soon as you have read them, place a stamp on the notice on the cover, and mail.
Bedside service of the American Library Association in the Base Hospital, Camp Devens, Massachusetts
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsMen reading in bed. Additional caption reads: With her book truck, the librarian brings to the man's bed the book he wants. The A.L.A. has placed libraries in 208 hospitals. The men in hospitals and camps here and overseas need your magazines. As soon as you have read them, place a stamp on the notice on the cover, and mail.
Library service of the American Library Association in the U.S. Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsSailors reading in a library. Additional caption reads: Reading in the Red Cross House. The A.L.A. has placed libraries in 230 hospitals.The men in hospitals and camps here and overseas need your magazines. As soon as you have read them, place a stamp on the notice on the cover, and mail.
Camp Library, Camp Upton, New York
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsExterior of the camp library. A car is in front.
Large Branch, Camp McClellan
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing soldiers patronizing a branch library at Camp McClellan, Alabama
Tea and Books with the Red Cross
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing soldiers having tea and reading. Photograph is highly degraded. Captioned "Tea and books with the Red Cross, Orly, near Paris."
Hotel du Pavillon, Paris
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing soldiers at a hotel reading. Caption reads "Hotel du Pavillon, Paris "Y" Hdgts. Intern'l Film Ser."
Reading and Writing Room, Paris
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing soldiers reading. Caption reads "Read'g & Writ'g Room, Paris Club, Rue Royals. Int. Film Ser. Inc."
Reading Room, American University, Paris
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing soldiers reading. Caption reads "Reading Room Am. University Union, Paris. Internt'l Film Ser. Inc."
Modern Plumbing Methods and Other Good Books (Hospital Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "Modern Plumbing Methods and Other Good Books on Photography, Carpentry, Cement and Concrete Work and Practical Steam and Hot Water Heating are in the HOSPITAL LIBRARY"

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