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

L'emprunt des "Derniéres Cartouches"
Image | French World War I PostersA man and young girl hand munitions to a soldier as he watches the enemy retreat.
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.
Les foyers du soldat
Image | 1918 | French World War I PostersA soldier is silhouetted by the moon as he walks in front of a snow-covered landscape.
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
A Soldier Charging Own Book
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing an unidentified American serviceman self-charging a library book in the mess hall at Camp Sheridan, Nebraska
K. of C. Branch, No. 1
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing American servicemen reading in a base library at Camp Kearney, California
Light & Airy Library
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing servicemen reading inside a base library at Camp Grant, Illinois
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.
Library Serrice of the American Library Association in the Base Hospital, Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsThree servicemen read in 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.
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.
Emptied Book Shelves
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide featuring photograph of librarians behind a desk with empty shelves, and 3 soldiers reading. Captioned "Emptied book shelves in a 'Y' at Is-sur-Tille"
Soldiers Reading Books at St. Louis Armory
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing soldiers reading library books at the library of the St. Louis Armory. The soldier at the far right side is reading a book titled, Loot
Library War Service Hospital, Newport News, Virginia
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing an unidentified female librarian along with a group of convalescent soldiers at a base hospital in Texas during World War I
A Happy Group - Base Hospital Library, Camp Logan, Texas
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing six soldiers enjoying the use of a military base library, with print materials donated by the American Library Association
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
Frederick Lutz letter to Louise
Multi-Page Item | 3 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Three page handwritten letter from Frederick Lutz to Louise, dated March 21, 1937. Lutz was an American volunteer during the Spanish Civil War. Letter from Frederick Lutz to Louise, dated March 21, 1937. The letter reads: March 21, 1937 Dear Louise: Your most welcome letter dated Feb 25 arrived today. how glad I was to get it--it was ...
Cushing's Artillery Men
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
French Cavalry
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white photograph of French cavalry.
Dead Union soldier on Gettysburg battlefield
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
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.
Souscrivez pour la victoire et pour le triomphe de la liberté
Image | 1918 | French World War I PostersAn image of victory wielding a sword appears above a field of advancing Allied soldiers, urging them to battle. Three soldiers dominate the foreground.
Journée de l’armée d’Afrique et des troupes coloniales
Image | French World War I PostersAfrican and colonial French troops advance in front of a pink blossoming tree.
A Welcome Ward Visitor, Base Hospital, Camp Cody, New Mexico
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing an ALA librarian distributing books to convalescent soldiers in a camp hospital during World War I
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
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.
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 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 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...
Light and Cheery Library Corner, General Hospital, Presidio, San Francisco
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 is seated at a desk in the background
Base Hospital Library, Camp Sevier, South Carolina
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing librarians and soldiers using a military base library in South Carolina
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."
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.
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."
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."
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."
Receiving New Books, Camp Upton, New York
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing workmen unloading new books for the base library at Camp Upton, New York
Independence Day, 1918
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white photograph, #15938, showing American soldiers and spectators at an Independence Day ball game in London, England, July 4, 1918. Originally released by the Committee for Public Information September 9, 1918.
Two tine iron fork
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Two tine iron fork with horn handle. Splits in the horn, and a stain on the handle base. 6.5" long
James Wilson Jessee
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A veteran of the Civil War, James Wilson Jessee worked as a farmhand after the war.

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