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
Woman: Nurse 1914
Image | 1967 | Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design
Mary A. Bickerdyke
Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Mrs. Mary A. (""Mother"") Bickerdyke (Organizer of Military Hospitals and Friend of the Soldiers) By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society". Mary Bickerdyke was a volunteer nurse and hospital administrator for Union soldiers during the Civil War. From text: "I cannot refrain from going outside the local record to say a word about Mrs. Mary A. Bickerdyke, o...
Bedside service of the American Library Association in a surgical ward at Fort Riley, Kansas.
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsSoldiers reading in bed. 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.
In a Surgical Ward, Base Hospital Library, Camp Devens, Mass.
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 stands to the right and an African-American orderly stands directly behind the group
Attending a Birth, from Histoires des nobles princes de Hainaut
Image | 1401-1500 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionBetween circa 1401 and 1500.
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.
The Dangers of War
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing a charcoal sketch of a nurse reading a book to a convalescent American serviceman. Note: The spotting on the image is due to imperfections on the emulsion of the slide. Art is "Compensation" by Harrison Fisher.
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.
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.
The History of Medicine in Mexico: The People's Demand for Better Health
Image | 1953-1954 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionBetween 1953 and 1954.
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
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.
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.
Untitled #69 (By Proxy)
Image | 1999 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionImage view: General view
A Ward Porch, Base Hospital, Camp Kearney, California
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing nurses and convalescent soldiers on the porch of a military hospital. Several of the soldiers are reading books donated for their use by the American Library Association.
Nurses' Library, Red Cross House, Camp Dodge, Iowa
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing four nurses reading at a table at a military base during World War I
Nurses' Recreation Room, Camp Jackson, South Carolina
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing five nurses reading books donated by the American Library Association during World War I
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 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.
Serve those who served
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Poster, color, 20 x 28 in., published by the United States Governmnet Printing Office
Angel of Mercy, Spanish Civil War
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)still from the film "Refugee." Text on the back of the photo reads: ANGEL OF MERCY: A nurse brings first aid to a refugee family in one of the first improvised hospitals in France. In the background is the HERMAN F. REISSIG travelling dispensary which regularly visits the sick and wounded in the camps and hospitals. From REFUGEE...
Political Vision of the Mexican People
Image | 1923-1928 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionBetween 1923 and 1928.

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