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

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.
Beside service of the American Library Association in U.S. General Hospital No 21, Denver, Colorado
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsMen select books from a booktruck. 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 Johnston, Florida
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsCaption reads: Camp Library, American Library Association; Camp Johnston, Florida
Library Service of the American Library Association in the U. S. General Hospital No. 14, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsSoldiers using the library. Additional caption reads: Picking out books 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.
Bedside service of the American Library Association at US. General Hospital No. 6, Fort McPherson, Georgia
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsServicemen selecting 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.
Camp Library at Camp Gordon, Georgia
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsSoldiers standing outside a camp library. Caption reads: Camp Library, American Library Association; Camp Gordon, Georgia
A Successful Appeal by the Rotary Club, San Antonio, Texas
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing a storefront window display, brimming with stacks of books donated for use by American service personnel in World War I. The book drive was coordinated by the ALA, with the cooperation of local associations such as the San Antonio Rotary Club
Books Outweight 'Army Blues,' Loan Parade, NYC
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing an ALA float during a New York City Liberty Loan parade. The float contains a mock scale, in which donated books "outweigh" containers marked "Army blues." Two soldiers read at a table while a third man, dressed as an officer, uses a megaphone to tout the campaign. Related image ALA0000353.
Camp Library at Camp Jackson, South Carolina
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsExterior of camp library. Caption reads: Camp Library, American Library Association; Camp Jackson, South Carolina
Camp Library at Kelly Field, Texas
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsExterior of camp library. Caption reads: Camp Library, American Library Association; Kelly Field, Texas
Bedside service of the American Library Association in the Base Hospital, Camp Travis, Texas.
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsMen in bed selecting books off a book truck. 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 Lee, Virginia
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsSoldiers marching outside of the camp library. Caption reads: Camp Library, American Library Association; Camp Lee, Virginia
Camp Library at Camp Jackson, South Carolina
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsExterior of camp library. Caption reads: Camp Library of the American Library Association at Camp Jackson, S.C. The A.L.A. gives service to 860 Army, Navy and Marine Corps camps and stations, and 208 hospitals. 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 magazine...
Camp Library at Camp Lewis, Washington
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsExterior of the camp library. Caption reads: Camp Library, American Library Association; Camp Lewis, Washington
Everything about the Farm (Hospital Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide advertisement reads: Everything About the Farm There Are Books on Profit Increasing Methods at the Hospital Library.
Everything about the Farm (Camp Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide advertisement reads: Everything About the Farm There are Books on Profit Increasing Methods in the CAMP LIBRARY.
Bedside service of the American Library Association in the Base Hospital, Ft. Sam Houston, Texas.
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsLibrarian brings books to wounded 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.
In the Library of the American Library Association at the Base Hospital, Camp Grant, Illinois
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.
In the Library of the American Library Association at Fort Riley, Kansas.
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.
Bedside service of the American Library Association in the US. Naval hospital, Fort Lyon, Colorado
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 in bed the book he wants. The A.L.A. has placed libraries in 249 hospitals. 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.
In the Library of the American Library Association at U.S. General Hospital No. 28, East View, New York
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsWounded servicemen using the library. Additional caption reads: The A.L.A. has placed libraties 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 at US. General Hospital No. 31, Carlisle, Pensylvannia
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.
Hard at Work, A.L.A. at Camp Custer
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing American service personnel in a camp library at Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Michigan
Camp Devens Library
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing the exterior of a library, with extension, at Camp Devens, Mass. Caption indicates original building dimension as 90' x 40', the extension's as 40' x 40'
Bedside service of the American Library Association in a surgical ward at Fort Riley, Kansas.
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsSoldiers reading in bed. 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 Custer, Michigan
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsExterior of a camp library building.
Camp Library at Camp Dix, New Jersy
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsExterior of a camp library building. Additional caption reads: The A.L.A. is still maintaining libraries in army, navy and marine corps camps and hospitals. Libraries have been placed on 1,509 naval and merchant marine vessels. More than 2,500,000 books were sent overseas. The men in the hospitals are still looking for your magazines. As soon as you have read them, place a ...
Camp Library at Camp Sherman, Ohio
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsMen reading in the camp library. Caption reads: Reading in the Camp Library; American Library Association; Camp Sherman, Ohio
Souscrivez a l'Emprunt de la Libération
Image | 1918 | French World War I PostersA tank crests over the top of a trench.
Bien faire et laisser braire
Image | French World War I PostersTwo donkeys bray in the foreground, in front of them a cart led by a donkey moves past an industrial city in the distance.
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.
Les vainqueurs de la Marne
Image | French World War I PostersIn the middle of the poster is a picture of battlefield with a tank and a burning village. To the left of this image is a French soldier, and to the right an American.
Pour la justice et le droit
Image | French World War I PostersThe silhouettes of soldiers advance in front of an outline of France.
Les foyers du soldat
Image | French World War I PostersA heavily-laden soldier makes his way towards a barracks in front of a demolished city.
Allons tous à la consultation
Image | French World War I PostersA line of infants and young girls winds outside of a building labeled "Consultation."
Affiche Composée par les enfants
Image | French World War I PostersWheat stalks decorate the left and right edges of this notice. This broadside accompanied 13 other posters in folder 5.
Casse aujourd'hui ton sucre en deux pour en avoir demain?
Image | French World War I PostersA French sword cuts through a package of sugar.
Pour la liberté du monde
Image | French World War I PostersThe Statue of Liberty appears over a watery horizon.
Pour que vos enfants ne connaissent plus les horreurs de la guerre
Image | French World War I PostersA mother carries her child to bed. Above the bed is a photo of the father, a soldier.

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