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American Library Association - Libraries - New Jersey through North Carolina - Fighters read in spare moments. Photo shows the Camp Library at Camp Upton, L.I. N.Y. This is a crowded building where soldiers with spare moments usually spend them. The reading they do is not soley for pleasure, but to cram up on military knowledge so that they will be in line for promotions. March 11, 1918
American Library Association - Campaigns - They signal "Send Books." Sending the signal for books from outside the New York Public Library building New York. The wireless apparatus was on the job sending the signal, illustrating the call for literature for our soldiers and sailors. March 19, 1918
American Library Association - Campaigns - Receiving books for soldiers at the Detroit Public Lirbrary. These books are distributed to men in the service everywhere by the American Library Association, War Service. From Mayor's Office, Detroit
American Library Association - Libraries - New Jersey through North Carolina - Fighters read in spare moments at Camp Upton, L.I. N.Y. National Army men at Camp Upton, L.I. N.Y., spend a lot of their spare moments in the Camp Library. They do not read for entertainment only for many of them are cramming on military work so that they will be in line for promotion
American Library Association - O through R - Seven miles from nowhere. The Lake Guards. They read everything from Thomas A'Kempis to Harold Bell Wright. Almost as much of the former as what they call "that popular stuff." These twenty-five men require fifty fresh books weekly. The non-coms are the backbone of the Camp Library support. Camp Doniphan, Okla
American Library Association - Preparing Books for the Blind - Magazines and books blind soldiers can "read". Blind woman putting pages together before binding them into magazines or books which are printed for blind soldiers. The soldiers read by feeling the shape of the letters
American Library Association Instruction Books - A section of students and instructors in the Divisional School, St. Nazaire, France. This school was operated almost entirely on books supplied by the A.L.A. and its officers stated that it would have been impossible to have conducted the school without the A.L.A. books. The books ordered by the Y.M.C.A. for this work for the army never arrived. The school originally had 500 students and 80 instructors, but the number grew less as men went home with their outfits
American Library Association - Hospitals by State A thru I - Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington, D.C. The porch of the Re-education Department, called the "Curative Workshop." In this department men maimed or disabled by disease are taught new trades for civil life. The picture shows a study class, under competent instructors where men may learn to read and write, or study law. The subjects range from the elementary to the collegiate
American Library Association - Campaigns - Pile of books contributed by various people for American Soldiers and Sailors
American Library Association - Dispatch - Enlist your books. In order to obtain reading matter for U.S. soldiers in the cantonments in this country and overseas a "Give a Book Week" campaign was launched by the American Library Association. The American Library Association had put into operation thirty-four libraries in various cantonments. Thousands of books had been purchased and used to fit out the reading places for the men. Appeals had been made by soldiers and saolors to send books and the Library Association requested the public to forward whatever literature it could spare. Photo shows a sailor looking over a case of books at the dispatch office at Hoboken, N.J
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Date Taken: 4/0/1918
Photographer: Western Newspaper Union
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1917 - 1918
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