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

Spacious and Cheering Hospital Library, Ft. Des Moines, Iowa
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing soldiers, nurses, and librarians using a military base library in Iowa
Library Service of the American Library Association at the Base Hospital, Camp Pike, Arkansas
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsWounded servicemen 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.
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 servicemen 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.
Reading by the fireside in the camp library of the American Library Association at Camp Upton, New York
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsServicemen reading in front of the fire. Additional caption reads: The A.L.A. is still maintaining libraries for the men in camp and hospitals awaiting discharge. These men are still looking for your magazines. As soon as you have read them, place a stamp on the notice on the cover, and mail.
Library Serrice of the American Library Association in the Base Hospital, Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsThree servicemen read in 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.
Bedside service of the American Library Association in the U.S. Naval Hospital, Fort Lyon, Colorado
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsMen select books from a booktruck. 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 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.
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 CollectionsMen using the library. 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.
A Book for Every Man (Hospital Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "There is a Book for every man at the HOSPITAL LIBRARY. Just sign your name for the book you want and take it to your ward. NO CHARGE."
A. L. A. Books in New Orleans Marine Hospital
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing A. L. A. donated books being read in a New Orleans Marine Hospital.
Is It Worth While? Base Hospital, Meade, Maryland
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing convalescent servicemen perusing reading materials donated through the ALA's book drive during World War I
They Appeal for Books, New York City, 1918, Mr. Carr Speaking
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing a crowd gathered around the steps of the New York City public library to hear an appeal for book donations for American service personnel. The speaker is likely Henry Carr, Executive Director of the ALA.
Serving Convalescents
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing an unidentified female librarian with an ALA badge distributing books from a cart to soldiers on the porch of the U.S. General Hospital 1 in the Bronx, New York.
New Magazines - Base Hospital Ward, Camp Kearney, California
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing librarians distributing donated books to convalescent soldiers on the porch of a military hospital in Northern California
Library Ward Service
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing convalescent servicemen and women reading at the military hospital in Newport, Virginia. Caption reads: "Library Wards Service Hospital Newport News, Virginia"
And Magazines, Newspapers and Maps (Hospital Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "And magazines, newspapers and maps on the war, your business and hobby on tap - free to every man in camp. AT THE HOSPITAL LIBRARY"
Train for Efficiency and Study in Business (Hospital Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "Train for Efficiency and Study in Business at the HOSPITAL LIBRARY"
YOUR BEST FRIEND RIGHT NOW (Hospital Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "YOUR BEST FRIEND RIGHT NOW is the HOSPITAL LIBRARY It has a book about your job at home."
Hospital Library Service of the American Library Association
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsWounded servicemen reading in 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 are still looking for your magazines. As soon as you have read them, place a stamp on the notice or the cover and mail.
Study room of the American Library Association in the Educational Building of US. General Hospital No. 2, Ft. McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland.
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.
Discharged servicemen reading on the lawn or the U.S. Marine Hospital, Stapleton, Staten Island, New York
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsServicemen sitting outside and reading. Additional caption reads: the American Library Association is maintaining libraries for former soldiers, sailors and marines, in all hospitals operated by the Public Health Service. 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.
In the Library of the American Library Association at US. General Hospital No. 30, Plattsburgh Barracks, New York
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsServicemen 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.
A Different Book-Cart & A Good Sign
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing a hospital library reading room. Caption reads "A Different Book-Cart & A Good Sign, Debark. Hosp. No. 5" Sign in background reads "Take any book you want. Please return books to desk near the shelves so that other men may have the benefit. - American Library Association." One woman and and twelve men featured, including injured man (with crutch and...
Convalescent Reading
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing a library reading room at Debark. Hospital 3. Caption reads "Convalescents Debark. Hosp. 3, N. Y. C. Photo by Underwood & Underwood"
Servicemen Reading
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing servicemen reading A. L. A. donated books on the porch of a military hospital.
Debarkation Hospital - A.L.A. Library
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing soldiers recently returned from Europe using an ALA library in 5 Grand Central Palace, New York City. An unidentified female librarian standing at right
Magazine Corner, Debarkation Hospital 3, New York City
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsPlate glass slide showing three soldiers reading in an ALA library. Multiple prints of Theodore Roosevelt adorn the walls
Porch of a Tuberculosis Ward, Base Hospital, Camp Jackson
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing convalescent soldiers reading books donated by the ALA on the porch of a military hospital located in Columbia, South Carolina
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 ...
Librarian and Orderly enter Overseas Ward, Camp Bowie, Texas
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing a library and hospital orderly distributing donated reading materials to soldiers at Camp Bowie
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
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.
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.
U. S. Naval Hospital Library, Oakland, California
Image | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsHandwritten on the front of photograph: U. S. Naval Hospital - Oakland, Calif.
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.
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.
Get Out of the Rut (Hospital Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "GET OUT OF THE RUT. There's a better way to work that job back home. Get posted. YOUR HOSPITAL LIBRARY"

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