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

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."
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"
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
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.
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
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."
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."
In the Library of the American Library Association at Camp Dodge, Iowa
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsMen using the 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, place a sta...
Study room of the American Library Association in the Educational Building of US. General Hospital No. 2, Ft. McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland.
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsServicemen using the 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.
Pleasant Room Library, U.S. General Hospital 3, Ft. Des Moines, Iowa
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsPlate glass slide showing soldiers using a military hospital library, with printed materials donated by the ALA
Magazine Corner, Debarkation Hospital 3, New York City
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsPlate glass slide showing three soldiers reading in an ALA library. Multiple prints of Theodore Roosevelt adorn the walls
Base Hospital Library, Camp Travis, Texas
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing a librarian and soldiers using the base library during World War I
Magazine Corner, Hospital Library, Camp Dodge, Iowa
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing four soldiers reading books and other printed material in a military base library in Iowa
Pour la liberté. Fete de l'indépendance, 4 Juillet 1776-1918
Image | 1918 | French World War I PostersA large American soldier stands on the bow of a ship next to a presidential statue and an American flag, while the Statue of Liberty shines a beacon of light from her torch.
Pour la France versez votre or
Image | 1915 | French World War I PostersA German soldier is forced to his knees by an enormous French coin bearing a French coq.
No title [Image of Lafayette and Uncle Sam]
Image | French World War I PostersA statue of Lafayette mounted on a horse reaches down and clasps hands with Uncle Sam.
Pour la Patrie
Image | French World War I PostersAlgerians and Tunisians on horseback charge into battle.
Journée du Poilu
Image | 1915 | French World War I PostersTwo soldiers stand side-by-side, one with a grizzled beard and the other clean-shaven.
The dead, collected for burial, after the battle of Antietam
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
United we win
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Poster, color, 28.5 x 40 in., published by the United States Government Printing Office
Popular "Y" Branch Library, Camp MacArthur
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing soldiers patronizing a YMCA branch library at Camp MacArthur, Texas.
Hospital Library's Home - Camp Kearney California
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing a librarian and several unidentified soldiers reading outside the hospital of Camp Kearney
Library service of the American Library Association in the Base Hospital, Camp Sherman, Ohio.
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsMen reading in a library. 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 at Camp McClellan, Alabama (Interior)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsMen reading in a library. Caption reads: Postcard caption reads: Reading in the Camp Library; American Library Association; Camp McClellan, Alabama
Library Service of the American Library Association at the Base Hospital, Camp Pike, Arkansas
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsMen using the library. Additional caption reads: Reading in the Red Cross House. The A.L.A. has placed libraries in 208 hopsitals.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 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...
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.
Camp Library at Camp Greene, North Carolina
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsExterior of the camp library with soldiers standing outside. Caption reads: Camp Library, American Library Association, Camp Greene, North Carolina
Camp Library at Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsSoldiers standing outside of the camp library. Caption reads: Camp Library of the American Library Association at Camp Doniphan, Okla. 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...
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 CollectionsServicemen using the library. 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.
HDQ. Co. 148 Inf. Passing Camp Lee Library, Virginia
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing soldiers of the Headquarters Company, 148 Infantry Regiment, marching by the ALA Library of Camp Lee, VA
Typical Small Camp Library, Camp Thomas
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing soldiers sitting at a table in a reading room.
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."
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."
French Newsie
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide featuring a photograph of a young child in a beret selling newspapers to American soldiers. Captioned "French Newsie sells American newspaper."
Marne Yser Somme Verdun
Image | French World War I PostersTwo women look adoringly at a French soldier holding the flag.
Emprunt de la Libération
Image | French World War I PostersA French soldier holds a rifle and a helmet, while next to him a Scottish soldier in a kilt grasps a grenade.
Debout dans la tranchee que l'aurore eclaire, le soldat reve a la victoire et a son foyer
Image | French World War I PostersA solitary soldier stands in a trench.

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