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

A Crew's Reading Room
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide featuring a photograph of sailors reading below deck on a ship. Captioned "A crew's reading room."
Training for Wireless
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide featuring photograph of sailors studying at desks with headphones on, captioned "Training for Wireless. Naval Tra. Station School."
Class Room Work
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide featuring photograph of sailors studying at desks and at chalkboards, captioned "Class room work Naval Training Station 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."
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.
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.)
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.
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)
Camp Library of the American Library Association at the Nayal Training Camp, Pelham Bay Park, New York
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsSailors lingering outside of their camp library. Additional caption reads: The A.L.A. gives library service to 240 naval stations, 911 vessels, 620 army and marine corps camps and posts, and 208 hospitals. 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 t...
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."
English Sailor
Image | 1951 | Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design
Navy Artificer School
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide featuring photograph of sailors measuring a propeller, captioned "Navy Artificer School"
A Comfortable Corner
Image | 1919 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide featuring photograph of sailors relaxing on the deck of a ship. Captioned "A Comfortable Corner; Transport Mercury; April 1919"
An Overseas Box, Hoboken Dispatch Office
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing an unidentified American sailor handling a book donated for use by service personnel during World War I
Hamilton Bermuda American Navy Club - "Y"
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing servicemen and women in front of an American Navy Club Y. M. C. A. The caption below reads: "Hamilton Bermuda American Navy Club - 'Y'"
Blue Jackets at Ease Inside the Pelham Bay Library
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing servicemen reading and relaxing at the Pelham Bay Library (Naval Training Camp, Pelham Bay Park, New York). Included note describes: "Blue Jacks at Ease Inside the Pelham Bay Library"
The Library in "The House that Jack Built"
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing A. L. A. donated reading materials being read by servicemen. The caption below reads: "The Library in 'The House That Jack Built' Naval Training Station Newport" The writing on the image reads: "The House That Jack Built. Training Station Library. Newport, R. I."
A Fresh Box of Books on Board a Merchant Ship at New Orleans
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing A. L. A. donated reading materials being read by servicemen on a ship. The caption below reads: "A Fresh Box of Books on Board a Merchant Ship at New Orleans."
Mathematics in Demand
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing A. L. A. donated reading materials being read by servicemen at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Lake County, Illinois. The caption below reads: "Mathematics in Demand. Great Lakes Naval Tra. Station"
Crew's Reading Room
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing servicemen reading. Caption reads: "Crew's Reading Room, Naval Training station, St. Helena, Norfolk, Virginia."
Naval Servicemen Reading
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing servicemen reading.
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing servicemen reading in a naval library. Caption reads: "Great Lakes Naval Training Station" (Duplicate image of ALA0000314.)
Camp Library
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing servicemen outside the camp library. Caption reads: "Pelham Bay Park New York, Naval Training Camp Library"
Drexel Hut "Y" Library
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing two servicemen reading. Caption reads: "Drexel Hut 'Y' Library Naval Training Station Newport, Rhode Island"
Naval Service Club
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing servicemen reading. Caption reads: "Naval Service Club, Beacon Street, Boston. American Library Association Books."
Reading at American Navy Club YMCA
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing servicemen reading. Caption reads: "Reading at American Navy Club -Y- Hamilton, Bermuda." (Duplicate image of ALA0000327.)
House That Jack Built
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing servicemen posing on and in front of a building labeled "House That Jack Built." Caption reads: "Put Up by the Labor & Recreation Fund of Jackies in Training."
A. L. A. Books in New Orleans Marine Hospital
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing A. L. A. donated books being read in a New Orleans Marine Hospital.
Military Training Reading Room
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing A. L. A. donated reading materials being read by servicemen. (Duplicate image of ALA0000317.)
Class in Wireless
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide featuring photograph of sailors studying at desks with headphones on, captioned "Class in wireless Naval Training station school."
Pelham Bay Park, New York
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide featuring photograph of sailors relaxing outside their camp library. Captioned "Pelham Bay Park N. Y., Naval Training Camp Library."
Camp Library, U.S. Naval Training Camp, Pelham Bay Park, New York
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsSailors lingering outside of the camp library, one has a gun over his shoulder.

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