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

Work Room, Camp Lewis Library, Tacoma, Washington
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing soldiers patronizing the field artillery branch library at Camp Lewis, WA
Tea and Books with the Red Cross
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing soldiers having tea and reading. Photograph is highly degraded. Captioned "Tea and books with the Red Cross, Orly, near Paris."
Remount Station Branch Library, Camp Lewis
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing the exterior of the ALA Camp Library at Camp Lewis, Tacoma, Washington
Train for Efficiency and Study in Business (Camp Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "Train for Efficiency and Study in Business at the CAMP LIBRARY"
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
Sorting Second Class Mail, Camp Sherman Library
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing two soldiers sorting printed materials for the ALA library at Camp Sherman, OH
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.
ATTENTION! (Camp Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide advertisement reads: ATTENTION! Take a shot at the books on tactics and military trainings - and ADVANCE! (No Charge) AT THE CAMP LIBRARY.
When in doubt take your question to the HOSPITAL LIBRARY
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide advertisement reads: When in doubt take your question to the HOSPITAL LIBRARY The Hospital Librarian doesn't know everything but can find information about most things. Try it out - it's free.
Large Branch, Camp McClellan
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing soldiers patronizing a branch library at Camp McClellan, Alabama
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
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.
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
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.
Library service of the American Library Association in the U.S. Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsSailors 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.
Camp Library, Camp Upton, New York
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsExterior of the camp library. A car is in front.
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 ...
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.
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
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
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.

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