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

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."
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 receving books from the ALA Camp Library at Kelly Field, no. 2, outside San Antonio, Texas
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."
Navy Artificer School
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide featuring photograph of sailors measuring a propeller, captioned "Navy Artificer School"
Seventy Percent has No Access
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide reads "Seventy per cent of the entire population of the United States has no access to libraries and reading rooms."
A Comfortable Corner
Image | 1919 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide featuring photograph of sailors relaxing on the deck of a ship. Captioned "A Comfortable Corner; Transport Mercury; April 1919"
Library at St. Aignan
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing soldiers patronizing a library. Uniformed librarian faces the camera. Captioned "In the library at St. Aignan."
In the Library of the American Library Association at Camp Gordon, Georgia
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsMen reading inside a 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...
Camp Library at Camp Grant, Illinois
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsSoldiers standing outside a camp library. Caption reads: Camp Library, American Library Association; Camp Grant, Illinois
Camp Library at Camp Perry, Illinois
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsSoldiers standing outside a camp library in winter. Caption reads: Camp Library, American Library Association; Camp Grant, Illinois
In the Library of the American Library Association at Camp Dodge, Iowa
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsMen 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, place a sta...
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"
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'"
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"
Free - And it pays!
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide caption reads: "COME OVER TO THE CAMP LIBRARY Walk right in Step up to the Desk Ask for what you want Just sign your name and organization on card And take your Book Free - And it pays!"
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, pla...
In the Library of the American Library Association at U.S. General Hospital No. 9, Lakewood, New Jersy
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
A Lull in the Battle of Menin Road
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing two soldiers resting on a couch outside, one is reading. Caption reads "A lull in the Battle of Menin Road. Brit. Official Photo."
How to Manage A Ship or Locomotive (Camp Library)
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide. Caption reads: "How to Manage A Ship or Locomotive Get Books in the CAMP LIBRARY on Train Operation Wireless or Practical Exporting"
Modern Plumbing Methods and Other Good Books (Recreation)
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 Recreation Buildings.
When in doubt take your question to the CAMP LIBRARY
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide advertisement reads: When in doubt take your question to the CAMP LIBRARY The Camp Librarian doesn't know everything but can find information about most things. Try it out - it's free.
Discharged servicemen reading on the lawn or the U.S. Marine Hospital, Stapleton, Staten Island, New York
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsServicemen sitting outside and reading. Additional caption reads: the American Library Association is maintaining libraries for former soldiers, sailors and marines, in all hospitals operated by the Public Health Service. 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 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 Funston Library by Night
Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsGlass plate slide showing the lighted exterior of the ALA library at Camp Funston, KS, taken at night
French switchboard
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white photograph. Label description: 'The French type switchboard, used in advanced zone section, sending Signal School 1st Depot Division, France.'
Postcard of American troops, Paris, France
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Postcard of American troops parading in Paris on July 4, 1918. The color guard carrying an American flag has just made a left turn. Spectators are on the right side. This card is an American Red Cross Post Card. It was never sent.
Great words of Woodrom Wilson
Audio | 1938 | WILL Sound Recordings (Digital Surrogates)

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