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

Got Your Eyes Glued to Some Job Back Home? (Hospital Library)
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 HOSPITAL LIBRARY. Stick To It, you'll get the job."
What's Easier Than Rolling Off a Log?
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "What's easier than rolling off a log? Getting a book at the Camp Library. NO RED TAPE? Not an inch. NO CHARGE? Not a cent. Just sign your name."
Don't Loaf (Hospital 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? HOSPITAL LIBRARY"
How About Engines? (Camp Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "How About Engines? Books On All Sorts at the CAMP LIBRARY"
Romances of Big Industries (Hospital Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "Romances of Big Industries. Ask for Them at the HOSPITAL LIBRARY"
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
It's RIGHT ABOUT FACE to Civil Life with a Bigger Job (Camp Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "It's RIGHT ABOUT FACE to Civil Life with a Bigger Job for the man who studies at the CAMP LIBRARY."
And Magazines, Newspapers and Maps (Camp 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 CAMP LIBRARY"
Books for Everybody
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide with the words: "Books for everybody. Ask your library or write to the A. L. A. 24 West 39th St. New York."
Two Million Dollars Needed
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide with the words; "Two-million dollars needed by A. L. A. for 'Books for Everybody' fund. 24 West 39th St. New York."
Early Example of Camp Architecture, Wheeler, Georgia
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing the exterior of an army camp library assembled from lumber and canvas sheeting
A Bit Chilly
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing servicemen walking in front of an American Library Association Library in winter. Caption reads: "A Bit Chilly, Great Lakes Naval Training station Library, Illinois"
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)
Library Corner in a "Y" Hut, France
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing soldiers reading. Captioned "Library corner in a Y Hut in France."
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.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.
Camp Library at Camp Dodge, Iowa
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsExterior of the camp library.
In the Library of the American Library Association in U.S. General Hospital No. 26, Des Moines, Iowa.
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsSoldiers 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.
Camp Library of the American Library Association at Camp Funston, Kansas.
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsExterior of the 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 and camps here and overseas need your magazines. As soon as you have read them, pla...
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.
Camp Library at Camp Meade, Maryland
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsExterior of the camp library. Camp Library, American Library Association, Camp Meade, Maryland
Old Lighthouse, Cape Henry, Virginia
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsPhotograph of a lighthouse. Caption reads: Men in lighthouses, on lightships, and in coast guard stations receive books from the American Library Association, co-operating with local libraries. 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.
Delivery of American Library Association books to U.S. Shipping Board boats in harbor, Newport News, Virginia
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsTwo men in a small boat with boxes of books. 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.
Merchant Marine Service, American Library Association.
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsMen reading at a table. Additional caption reads: Boxed crew's libraries, each containing about eighty books of fiction, travel, books on seamanship and others, are exchangeable at principal ports. 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.
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."
How to Manage A Ship or Locomotive (Public Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "How to Manage A Ship or Locomotive Get Books in the PUBLIC LIBRARY on Train Operation Wireless or Practical Exporting"
Uncle Sam Window Display
Image | 1919 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Window display featuring Uncle Sam offering a book to a serviceman reading in a bunker. Caption reads: "CITY GAS CO. WINDOW DETROIT BOOK CAMPAIGN MARCH 1919"
BOOKS. MAGAZINES. PAPERS
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "BOOKS. MAGAZINES. PAPERS. VISIT THE CAMP LIBRARY ON MAIN STREET. OPEN EVERY DAY FROM 9AM-10PM"
Modern Plumbing Methods and Other Good Books (Camp Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide advertisement reads: Modern Plumbing Methods and Other Good Books on Photography, Carpentry, Cement Work and Practical Steam and Hot Water Heating are in the CAMP LIBRARY.
Camp Library at Camp Travis, Texas
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsExterior of camp library. Caption reads: Camp Library, American Library Association; Camp Travis, Texas.
Library Service of the American Library Association in the Embarkation Hospital, Newport News, Virginia
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.
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 infirmary 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.
Camp Library at Camp Sheridan, Alabama (Exterior)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsCamp McClellan library building. Caption reads: Camp Library American Library Association; Camp Sheridan, Alabama
Camp Library at Camp Hancock, Georgia
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsExterior of the camp library.
In the Library of the American Library Association at Camp Jesup, Georgia.
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsSoldiers using the library. Additional caption reads: The A.L.A. gives 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...
Wounded Men on the Transport
Image | 1919 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide featuring photograph of servicemen gathered on the deck of a transport ship. Some on crutches. Caption reads "Wounded men on the transport Mercury. April 1919."
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]
Canadian Soldiers
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing soldiers patronizing a library. Caption reads "Library corner Canadian Soldiers College. Seaford, Sussex, England."
American Newspaper Welcomed in France
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing a soldier sitting outside on a cot and reading a newspaper. Caption reads "American newspaper welcomed in France. Intnt'l Film Ser. Inc."
GO BACK ALL SET (Camp Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "GO BACK ALL SET for a Bigger Job in civil life There's a Book to help you swing it at the CAMP LIBRARY"

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