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 Staff and Delivery Service
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing the civilian and military staff of the ALA Camp Library, in front of a delivery car at Kelly Aviation Field, near San Antonio, Texas
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.
War Library Lunch
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing library personnel eating lunch in the staff room of the St. Louis war Library
A Corner in Books
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing a librarian working amid a pile of books. Caption reads "Mr. Wright sorts books for [Camp] Funston"
Base Hospital Library, Camp Travis, Texas
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing a librarian and soldiers using the base library during World War I
Library War Service Hospital, Newport News, Virginia
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing an unidentified female librarian along with a group of convalescent soldiers at a base hospital in Texas during World War I
Division Photographers use Library, Camp Travis, Texas
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing servicemen and one female librarian in a base library at Camp Travis, Texas
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
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
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
Hospital Library's Home - Camp Kearney California
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing a librarian and several unidentified soldiers reading outside the hospital of Camp Kearney
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
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.
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.
Louis J. Bailey
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide portrait. Caption reads: "Louis J. Bailey ALA. N. Y. D. O."
Burton E. Stevenson
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide portrait. Caption reads: "Burton E. Stevenson European A. L. A. Representative."
Light and Cheery Library Corner, General Hospital, Presidio, San Francisco
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing a group of convalescent soldiers reading books donated by the ALA. An unidentified female librarian is seated at a desk in the background
Ward Library Service, Base Hospital, Camp Pike, Arkansas
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing an unidentified woman standing next to an ALA book cart while two convalescent soldiers read books in a military hospital
Base Hospital Library, Camp Sevier, South Carolina
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing librarians and soldiers using a military base library in South Carolina
A Welcome Ward Visitor, Base Hospital, Camp Cody, New Mexico
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing an ALA librarian distributing books to convalescent soldiers in a camp hospital during World War I
Bedside service of the American Library Association in U.S. General Hospital No.22, Fort Sheridan, Illinois
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsA librarian helps a man in bed select a book off a cart. 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 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.
Bedside service of the American Library Association in the Base Hospital, Camp Meade, Maryland
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsLibrarian delivering books to men 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.
Ward service of the American Library Association in the U.S. General Hospital No. 8, Otisville, New York
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsLibrarian delivering books to men in bed. Additional caption reads: The librarian aids reconstruction work by supplying the book needed. 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 the Base Hospital, Camp Grant, Illinois
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsMen reading inside a library, a librarian selects a book off the shelf. 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.
Bedside service of the American Library Association in U S. General Hospital No. 1, The Bronx, New York City.
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsWounded servicemen getting books off a cart. 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.
In the Library of the American Library Association at U.S. General Hospital No. 8, Otisville, New York
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsServicemen and nurses using the library. Additional caption reads: The ALA. 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.
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
Fliers and Mechanics Get Books
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing Army fliers and mechanics receiving books from the ALA Camp Library at Kelly Field, no. 2, outside San Antonio, Texas
Library at St. Aignan
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing soldiers patronizing a library. Uniformed librarian faces the camera. Captioned "In the library at St. Aignan."
Library Service of the American Library Association in the Base Hospital, Camp Custer, Michigan
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsMen reading in a library. Additional caption reads: Reading in the Red Cross House. The A.L.A. has placed library 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.
Mrs. Griggs and Miss Ahern with Coblenz Staff
Image | 1919 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing personnel in front of American Library Association Soldier's Library. Caption reads: "Mrs. Griggs and Miss Ahern with Coblenz Staff. May 1919."
Coblenz: May 1919
Image | 1919 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "Coblenz: May 1919. Mr. Jennings 'Righ' Mr. Ruby 'Center'"
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...

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