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

Les Blessés au Travail. Oeuvre pour les soldats convalescents ou réformés
Image | French World War I PostersA wounded soldier paints wooden toys.
Deux coeurs fidéles qui ont souffert sous le joug Allemand le espérent la délivrance Française!
Image | French World War I PostersTwo women stand side-by-side.
Marne Yser Somme Verdun
Image | French World War I PostersTwo women look adoringly at a French soldier holding the flag.
Journée du Poilu 25 et 26 Décembre 1915
Image | 1915 | French World War I PostersA soldier prepares to throw a grenade.
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.
Journée du Puy de Dome. Paquetage du Soldat 23 Janvier 1916
Image | 1916 | French World War I PostersTwo young people carry a package through the snow.
Le retour au foyer
Image | 1917 | French World War I PostersTwo wide-eyed children, a girl and a boy holding a cat, stand in front of a ruined home.
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.
Ils combattent: Souscrivons
Image | 1918 | French World War I PostersAllied soldiers raise their respective flags high and march forward as the sun rises behind them. Tanks and airplanes also advance in the background.
Pour que la France soit victorieuse!
Image | 1918 | French World War I PostersThe French coq faces off against the German eagle.
Compagnie Algérienne
Image | 1918 | French World War I PostersA warrior in flowing white robes rides on the back of a black stallion.
Pour la belle terre de France
Image | French World War I PostersFrench women harvesting wheat wave to a passing group of American soldiers, while a train passes in the distance. Another American soldier is scything the wheat.
Aide toi le ciel t'aidera.
Image | French World War I PostersTwo small frames show a field being plowed by horses, and haystacks in the sunrise.
D'abord l'homme prend l'alcool puis l'alcool prend l'homme
Image | French World War I PostersThe first image shows a man holding a glass of wine, the second shows an anthropomorphic bottle of wine choking a man.
Fais ce que dois advienne que pourra
Image | French World War I PostersDrawings of a rooster and a helmet decorate this poster.
Sauvez votre bébé! La mort le guette
Image | French World War I PostersA skeletal Death peers into a nursery filled with babies.
Emprunt de la Défense Nationale
Image | 1915 | French World War I PostersA mother and her children watch a soldier wave as he heads off to war.
2,500,000 Books Reached France
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing unidentified men in a warehouse handling books donated for use by American service personnel in France through the ALA's wartime book campaign
African-American Serviceman Reading Aloud
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing a group of African-American servicemen, with one soldier in the middle reading to the rest. Caption reads: "Colored Soldier Reading Aloud to Illiterate Mates, Gordon, GA."
They Appeal for Books, New York City, 1918, Mr. Carr Speaking
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing a crowd gathered around the steps of the New York City public library to hear an appeal for book donations for American service personnel. The speaker is likely Henry Carr, Executive Director of the ALA.
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
A Truck Load for Overseas, Newport News
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing unidentified soldiers with a truck laden with boxes of books donated through the ALA for American service personnel during World War I
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.
A Successful Day, New York City, Book Campaign, 1918
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing large piles of books donated for American service personnel on the steps of the New York City public library
The Dangers of War
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing a charcoal sketch of a nurse reading a book to a convalescent American serviceman. Note: The spotting on the image is due to imperfections on the emulsion of the slide. Art is "Compensation" by Harrison Fisher.
New Magazines - Base Hospital Ward, Camp Kearney, California
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing librarians distributing donated books to convalescent soldiers on the porch of a military hospital in Northern California
Library Ward Service
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing convalescent servicemen and women reading at the military hospital in Newport, Virginia. Caption reads: "Library Wards Service Hospital Newport News, Virginia"
Serving Convalescents
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing an unidentified female librarian with an ALA badge distributing books from a cart to soldiers on the porch of the U.S. General Hospital 1 in the Bronx, New York.
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"
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."
An hour off duty, with American Library Association books. Merchant Marine vessel, Charleston, South Carolina
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsSeamen reading on the deck of a ship. 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.
Making a good haul at Hampton Roads, Virginia Merchant Marine library service of the American Library Association.
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsMen pulling a box on board a ship. 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.
Camp Lewis Extension
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing extension to the library at Camp Lewis, WA. Caption indicates the dimensions of the building as 120' x 40', 40' x 40' for the extension.

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