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In the Library of the American Library Association at US. General Hospital No. 30, Plattsburgh Barracks, New York
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.
Camp Library at Camp Logan, Texas
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsExterior of camp library. Caption reads: Camp Library, American Library Association; Camp Logan, Texas
Mrs. Griggs and Miss Ahern with Coblenz Staff
Image | 1919 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing personnel in front of American Library Association Soldier's Library. Caption reads: "Mrs. Griggs and Miss Ahern with Coblenz Staff. May 1919."
Coblenz: May 1919
Image | 1919 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "Coblenz: May 1919. Mr. Jennings 'Righ' Mr. Ruby 'Center'"
Reading by Flashlight
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "Reading By Flashlight. Photo by Brown Bros. N. Y. C."
Got Your Eyes Glued to Some Job Back Home? (Recreation Building)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "Got your eyes glued to some job back home? Better glue them to the book about it at the LIBRARY in the Recreation Buildings. Stick To It, you'll get the job."
Library War Service Opening Slide
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "Manufacturers in [Marion], Indiana have given to this public library the privilege of using their bulletin boards for posting vocational lists."
A Different Book-Cart & A Good Sign
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing a hospital library reading room. Caption reads "A Different Book-Cart & A Good Sign, Debark. Hosp. No. 5" Sign in background reads "Take any book you want. Please return books to desk near the shelves so that other men may have the benefit. - American Library Association." One woman and and twelve men featured, including injured man (with crutch and...
Convalescent Reading
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing a library reading room at Debark. Hospital 3. Caption reads "Convalescents Debark. Hosp. 3, N. Y. C. Photo by Underwood & Underwood"
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"
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."
Your Camp Library Welcomes You
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing road signs pointing toward the base library at Camp Upton, Long Island, New York. The sign reads ""Your Camp Library Welcomes You. 65,000 Books and Magazines maintained by the American Library Ass'n. All Cordially invited Bet. [between] Library & the Mall"
And Magazines, Newspapers and Maps (Hospital Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "And magazines, newspapers and maps on the war, your business and hobby on tap - free to every man in camp. AT THE HOSPITAL LIBRARY"
A Book for Every Man (Camp Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "There is a Book for every man at the CAMP LIBRARY. Just sign your name for the book you want and take it to your ward. NO CHARGE."
Get Out of the Rut (Camp Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "GET OUT OF THE RUT. There's a better way to work that job back home. Get posted. YOUR CAMP 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."
Soldier Reads a Book in an Army Base Library
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing soldiers reading in a base library 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'"
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"
YOUR BEST FRIEND RIGHT NOW (Hospital Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "YOUR BEST FRIEND RIGHT NOW is the HOSPITAL LIBRARY It has a book about your job at home."
How About Engines? (Recreation)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "How About Engines? Books On All Sorts at the Library in the Recreation Buildings"
The Mercury Later Rec'd AM News
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide featuring photograph of servicemen reading on a transport ship. Captioned "The Mercury later rec'd. AM news by seaplane. Pht. Lt. Lightingale."
Seven Million Books
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide reads "The American people through the A. L. A. sent seven million books to men at war. Men, women and children at home need libraries too."
Camp Travis Float
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide shows two servicemen posing with a car that is decorated like a ship. Sign on side of car reads: "American Library Association Has Sent More Than a Million Books Overseas and Must Send a Million More." Text below image reads: "Camp Travis Float United War Work Campaign November 1918"
Hospital Library Service of the American Library Association
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsWounded servicemen reading 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 are still looking for your magazines. As soon as you have read them, place a stamp on the notice or the cover and mail.
In the Library of the American Library Association at Camp Dodge, Iowa.
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsServicemen 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, plac...
Glass plate slide of a billboard with an advertisement. Image depicts a sailor, possibly a factory worker, and an army serviceman with linked arms, marching towards a sign which reads: Back to the Job. Knowledge WINS on Pay Day. Use your Camp and Public Library. The backdrop behind the texts appears to be a dock and warehouses. The sign above the billboard has the company name of "Thos. Cusack Co."
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsServicemen using the library. Additional caption reads: Reading in the Post Chapel Library. 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.
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.
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
Soldiers 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"
Romances of Big Industries (Recreation)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "Romances of Big Industries. Ask for Them at the Recreation Buildings."
Your Next Job and Where to Look For It (Public Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "Your Next Job and Where to Look For It. The PUBLIC LIBRARY has books to help you."
ALA Warehouse
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide with an image of a building. Caption reads: "A. L. A. Warehouse; Four Hours from Paris."
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."
Sixty Million Americans
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide with the words: "Sixty-million Americans lack adequate libraries. The A. L. A. 'Books for Everybody' fund needs your support."
Library Services for every Man, Woman and Child
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide reads "It is the responsibility of the American Library Association to encourage and promote the development of library services for every man, woman and child in America."
Train for Efficiency and Study in Business (Hospital Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "Train for Efficiency and Study in Business at the HOSPITAL LIBRARY"
Romances of Big Industries (Public Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "Romances of Big Industries Ask for Them at the Public Library"
Fliers and Mechanics Get Books
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing Army fliers and mechanics receiving books from the ALA Camp Library at Kelly Field, no. 2, outside San Antonio, Texas

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