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

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.
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...
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.
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"
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.
They Begin to Come
Image | 1919 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing an unidentified man announcing a book drive for American service personnel from the steps of a public building in New York City
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
Camp Library at Camp Cody, New Mexico
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsMen standing outside of a camp library building. Caption reads: CAMP LIBRARY, AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION; CAMP CODY, NEW MEXICO
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.
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 Walter Reed U. S. General Hospital, Washington, D.C.
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsServicemen using the library. Additional caption reads: The library is located in the Red Cross House. 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 in U S. General Hospital No. 1, The Bronx, New York City.
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsWounded servicemen getting books 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 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.
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...
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 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.
EX-SERVICE MEN ANYWHERE MAY BORROW BOOKS FREE
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "EX-SERVICE MEN ANYWHERE MAY BORROW BOOKS FREE FROM THEIR LOCAL PUBLIC LIBRARY OR THE STATE LIBRARY COMMISSION OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 78 E. WASHINGTON ST. CHICAGO, ILL."
GO BACK ALL SET (Hospital)
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 HOSPITAL LIBRARY"
YOUR BEST FRIEND RIGHT NOW (Camp Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "YOUR BEST FRIEND RIGHT NOW is the CAMP LIBRARY It has a book about your job at home."
Ask for the paper you used to read (Hospital Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Image of a newsboy holding up a paper. Caption reads: "Ask for the paper you used to read Daily Newspapers from your Home State At the HOSPITAL LIBRARY"
Crowded Living Quarters
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing large piles of books at the ALA Camp Library at Kelly Field, near San Antonio, Texas
A BOOK FOR EVERY SOLDIER AND SAILOR
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide caption reads: "A BOOK FOR EVERY SOLDIER AND SAILOR The American Library Association maintains free library service at its Camp Library Building and at the Y.M.C.A. and K. of C. branches and other points in this camp."
5000000 BOOKS in SERVICE
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. American Library Association parade float with servicemen riding inside for the United War Work Campaign; Kansas City, November 9, 1918. Large sign reads: A.L.A. 5,000,000 BOOKS in SERVICE 1550 BRANCHES in US & FRONT. Smaller sign in front of book case reads: BOUGHT BY A.L.A. FOR USA MOTOR SCHOOLS IN KANSAS CITY. Side sign reads: UNCLE SAM TURNS OVER ALL O...
Overseas Box Service As Sectional Bookcase
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide of an American Library Association bookcase shipment overseas. Caption reads: "Overseas Box Service As Sectional Bookcase."

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