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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.
Servicemen Reading in Naval Library
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing servicemen reading in a naval library. (Duplicate image of ALA0000318.)
Chaplain Spotts, A. L. A. Library, Naval Training Station San Diego, California
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing A. L. A. donated reading materials being read by servicemen. Caption below reads: "Chaplain Spotts, A. L. A. Library, Naval Training Station San Diego, California" (Duplicate image of ALA0000309.)
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
Library War Service Opening Slide
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "The Library War Service is prepared to supply the eight slides following, to Public libraries at cost."
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
In N.Y.C. 5th Liberty Loan Parade
Image | 1919 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing an ALA float advertising its book drive for American service personnel in a New York City parade during the 5th Liberty Loan campaign of World War I
City Gas Co. Window, Detroit Book Campaign
Image | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing a window display advertising the ALA's book drive for American service personnel
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's Office
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing the office of the librarian at Camp Lewis, Tacoma, Washington
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
Chaplain Blackman Delivers Books Thus on Rainy Nights
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing an Army chaplain with a box to carry books to soldiers
Trucks Loading with O.S. Cases, 3 W. 15 - N.Y.C.
Image | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing workmen loading boxes onto a truck located on West 15th Street, Manhattan
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
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
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

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