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A Different Book-Cart & A Good Sign

Naval Servicemen Reading

A Single Magazine is Popular

BOOKS FOR EVERYBODY

Navy Artificer School

Electrical School

Seventy Percent has No Access

Get Out of the Rut (Hospital Library)

Soliders in Library, Camp Travis, Texas

Romances of Big Industries (Camp Library)

Don't Loaf (Camp Library)

How About Engines? (Public Library)

Romances of Big Industries (Public Library)

EX-SERVICE MEN ANYWHERE MAY BORROW BOOKS FREE

YOUR BEST FRIEND RIGHT NOW (Hospital Library)

YOUR BEST FRIEND RIGHT NOW (Recreation)

BACK TO THE JOB

Inside American Navy Club "Y"

Burton E. Stevenson

Got Your Eyes Glued to Some Job Back Home? (Recreation Building)

Library Exterior, Camp Travis, Texas

Discharged servicemen reading on the lawn or the U.S. Marine Hospital, Stapleton, Staten Island, New York

Bedside service of the American Library Association in the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, Greenville, South Carolina

Bedside service of the American Library Association at the U.S. General Hospital No. 43, National Soldiers' Home, Virginia

Hospital Library Service of the American Library Association.

Ward service of the American Library Association at US. General Hospital No. 19, Oteen, North Carolina

In the Library of the American Library Association at U.S. General Hospital No. 16, New Haven, Connecticut

They Appeal for Books, New York City, 1918, Mr. Carr Speaking

Merchant seamen find opportunities for study in technical books supplied by the American Library Association.

American Library Association books boarding Merchant Marine vessel at New Orleans, Louisiana

An hour off duty, with American Library Association books. Merchant Marine vessel, Charleston, South Carolina

Interior, Camp Sheridan Library

Burleson's in the Early Days at Camp Custer

German Prisoners Reading after Lunch

A Lull in the Battle of Menin Road

Reading and Writing Room, Paris

Burleson's in the Early Days, A. Camp Lee, B. Camp Custer

Books in a Hut

General Pershing (Camp Library)

Everything about the Farm (Hospital Library)

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...
Naval Servicemen Reading
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing servicemen reading.
A Single Magazine is Popular
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide image features three army soldiers crowding around one magazine. Caption reads: "A Single Magazine is Popular."
BOOKS FOR EVERYBODY
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide reads "Books for everybody. The Aim of the American Library Association."
Navy Artificer School
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide featuring photograph of sailors measuring a propeller, captioned "Navy Artificer School"
Electrical School
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide featuring a photograph of sailors working on small engines, captioned "Electrical School. Navy. Tech. books supplied by A. L. A."
Seventy Percent has No Access
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide reads "Seventy per cent of the entire population of the United States has no access to libraries and reading rooms."
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"
Soliders in Library, Camp Travis, Texas
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing a group of four soldiers reading in the ALA Camp Library at Camp Travis, Texas. The sign at the front of the table reads, "Please do not return the book to shelves"
Romances of Big Industries (Camp Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "Romances of Big Industries. Ask for Them at the CAMP LIBRARY"
Don't Loaf (Camp Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "DON'T LOAF. The other fellow is studying. There's a big job waiting back home. Which Of You Will Get It? CAMP LIBRARY"
How About Engines? (Public Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "How About Engines? Books On All Sorts at the PUBLIC LIBRARY"
Romances of Big Industries (Public Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "Romances of Big Industries Ask for Them at the Public Library"
EX-SERVICE MEN ANYWHERE MAY BORROW BOOKS FREE
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "EX-SERVICE MEN ANYWHERE MAY BORROW BOOKS FREE FROM THEIR LOCAL PUBLIC LIBRARY OR THE STATE LIBRARY COMMISSION OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 78 E. WASHINGTON ST. CHICAGO, ILL."
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."
YOUR BEST FRIEND RIGHT NOW (Recreation)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "YOUR BEST FRIEND RIGHT NOW is the LIBRARY at the Recreation Building It has a book about your job at home."
BACK TO THE JOB
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide caption reads: "Street Sign, Birmingham, Alabama." Sign reads: BACK TO THE JOB / WHAT JOB? / Books on All Jobs at the Public Library. Photograph of Birmingham street view includes a street car and motor cars.
Inside American Navy Club "Y"
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing servicemen reading. Caption reads: "Inside American Navy Club, Y, Hamilton, Bermuda. Note FRBR Canad. & American." (Duplicate image of ALA000032)
Burton E. Stevenson
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide portrait. Caption reads: "Burton E. Stevenson European A. L. A. Representative."
Got Your Eyes Glued to Some Job Back Home? (Recreation Building)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "Got your eyes glued to some job back home? Better glue them to the book about it at the LIBRARY in the Recreation Buildings. Stick To It, you'll get the job."
Library Exterior, Camp Travis, Texas
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing soldiers reading on the covered porch of the ALA Camp Library at Camp Travis, Texas
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.
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 lookmg 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.
Hospital Library Service of the American Library Association.
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsSoldiers reading in a 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.
Ward service of the American Library Association at US. General Hospital No. 19, Oteen, North Carolina
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsMen using the library. Additional caption reads: Sun parlor of an infimary ward where convalescents obtain their reading matter. 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 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.
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.
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.
An hour off duty, with American Library Association books. Merchant Marine vessel, Charleston, South Carolina
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsSeamen reading on the deck of 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.
Interior, Camp Sheridan Library
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing interior view of soldiers patronizing the library at Camp Sheridan, Alabama
Burleson's in the Early Days at Camp Custer
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing delivery of reading materials to ALA library of Camp Custer, MI [image identical to bottom frame of image 5936]
German Prisoners Reading after Lunch
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing to prisoners of war reading in bed. Caption reads "German prisoners reading after lunch. Intn'l. Film Ser. Inc."
A Lull in the Battle of Menin Road
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing two soldiers resting on a couch outside, one is reading. Caption reads "A lull in the Battle of Menin Road. Brit. Official Photo."
Reading and Writing Room, Paris
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing solders reading. Caption reads "Read'g & Writ'g Room, Paris Club, Rue Royals. Int. Film Ser. Inc."
Burleson's in the Early Days, A. Camp Lee, B. Camp Custer
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide [two images] showing deliveries of reading material to ALA libraries at Camp Lee, VA (top), and Camp Custer, MI
Books in a Hut
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing soldiers patronizing a library. Caption reads "Books in a hut at Is-sur-Tille."
General Pershing (Camp Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide advertisement reads: General Pershing has asked for 50 tons of books every month. Over 100,000 volumes of good books are being sent each month to the front over there by the A.L.A. Hurry over - reading at the CAMP LIBRARY.
Everything about the Farm (Hospital Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide advertisement reads: Everything About the Farm There Are Books on Profit Increasing Methods at the Hospital Library.