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Camp Library at Camp Dix, New Jersey

The Pastime Magazine, vol. 2, no. 13

200,000 Wounded Soldiers want Books to Read

Library Service of the American Library Association at the Base Hospital, Camp Dix, New Jersey

Camp Library at Camp Dix, New Jersey
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsExterior of a camp library building. Additional caption reads: The A.L.A. is still maintaining libraries in army, navy and marine corps camps and hospitals. Libraries have been placed on 1,509 naval and merchant marine vessels. More than 2,500,000 books were sent overseas. The men in the hospitals are still looking for your magazines. As soon as you have read them, place a s...
The Pastime Magazine, vol. 2, no. 13
Multi-Page Item | 12 pages | 1878 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)An amateur journal entitled "The Pastime Magazine," published in Newark, New Jersey and edited by I. H. Blanchard. This issue, published in September 1878, includes various advertisements and articles.
200,000 Wounded Soldiers want Books to Read
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing a handbill advertising the ALA's book drive for American service personnel. The ad features a picture of an interracial group of convalescent soldiers at Camp Dix base hospital positioned around a book cart, and the text admonishes, "Give them some for Christmas, the kind you'd give your boy. Send gift books to Free Public Library, December 14th to ...
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.

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Camp Library at Camp Dix, New Jersey

The Pastime Magazine, vol. 2, no. 13

200,000 Wounded Soldiers want Books to Read

Library Service of the American Library Association at the Base Hospital, Camp Dix, New Jersey

Camp Library at Camp Dix, New Jersey

The Pastime Magazine, vol. 2, no. 13

200,000 Wounded Soldiers want Books to Read

Library Service of the American Library Association at the Base Hospital, Camp Dix, New Jersey