U.S.I.S. Recording Playback Room, Finland
Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Speech Laboratory, Cuidad Trujillo, Dominican Republic
Original caption: Seminar for National Teachers of English Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Library Building, Instituto Cultural Dominico-Americano
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People in Library - U.S. National Archives Public Domain photograph
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Herr Fichtl Carries the Apparatus to His Home
Original caption: "Sweeney Steps Out." Sweeney is the star of one of the many instructive and entertaining movie shorts the Linz, Upper Austria American House lends to volunteer operators who display them at r... More
Children Outside Traveling Library
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Loan Desk, Biblioteca Americana de Nicaragua
Original caption: Marina Herrera and Bertha Herdocia are on duty. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Helsinki "Hop-Cats" at the U.S. Information Center, Helsinki
Original caption: Helsinki "hop-cats" gather every other week at the U.S. Information Center to explore the mysteries of jazz. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Herr Fichtl Checks Apparatus at His Home
Original caption: "Sweeney Steps Out." Sweeney is the star of one of the many instructive and entertaining movie shorts the Linz, Upper Austria American House lends to volunteer operators who display them at r... More
Reading to Children, Germany - U.S. National Archives Public Domain ph...
Original caption: Employee reads stories to a group of youngsters in the children's day room of the Amerika Haus, Hamburg. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Beginner's English Class, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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American Scientist Lectures to Library Patrons, Teotihuacan, Mexico
Original caption: The Bookmobile of the Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin in Mexico City visits Teotihuacan, Mexico. An American scientist lectures to library patrons. Photographs of Information Center Service Activ... More
Story Hour in Spanish, Mexico - U.S. National Archives Public Domain p...
Original caption: Miss Raquel Viliesid, Assistant in the children's room of the BBF, engaged in a regular Friday afternoon activity, the story hour in Spanish. Photographs of Information Center Service Activiti... More
Periodical Room, IIA Valencia Library
Original caption: Periodical room is on "standing room only" basis most of each working day Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Periodical Room, U.S. Library, Paris
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Technology Reference Room, U.S. Information Center, Paris
Original caption: The reference room on technology, science and medicine at the U.S. Information Center in Paris is popular. Here students, doctors and other professional men and women do research and study fro... More
Hall Johnson's Childrens Choir - U.S. National Archives Public Domain ...
Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Teens Enjoying the Library - U.S. National Archives Public Domain phot...
Original caption: Children's corner at the U.S. Information Center in Vienna's first district. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Mr. James Hulbert, U.S. Library, Paris
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The Bookmobile Arrives at Lofer
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Textbook Exhibit in Stockholm, Sweden
Original caption: In addition to Stockholm, this exhibit was circulated to eight other Swedish cities and exhibited in local libraries. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
English School, Helsinki - U.S. National Archives Public Domain photog...
Original caption: Some of the 400 students of the English School in Helsinki, Finland help Jack K. McFall, American Minister and Public Affairs Officer, David Wilson, to look through volumes of the Encyclopedia... More
U.S.I.S. Reading Room, Rome, Italy
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People Line Up to Visit Bookmobile, Mannheim, Germany
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Main Reading Room, Biblioteca Americana de Nicaragua, Managua, Nicarag...
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Original caption: The Librarian Carefully Enters the Consignment Into ...
Original caption: The books are on loan for a period of three months completely free of charge. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
The Sound Movie Projector Packed in Cases, the Films in His Rucksack, ...
Original caption: "Sweeney Steps Out." Sweeney is the star of one of the many instructive and entertaining movie shorts the Linz, Upper Austria American House lends to volunteer operators who display them at r... More
The authority to acquire real estate in foreign countries
The authority to acquire real estate in foreign countries in support of military contingency operations is delegated to the Assistant Secretary of the Army. Authority is further delegated to the U.S. Army Corps... More
Bookmobile, Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin, U.S.I.C. Mexico, D.F.
Original caption: Bookmobile visits "Boy's Town of Mexico" with books, pamphlets, and hand-outs. "Boy's Town" is a favorite charity of the wife of the president of Mexico. Right: Director of Biblioteca Benjamin... More
U.S.I.S. Bookmobile, Mannheim, Germany
Original caption: At Gross Sachson (popularion 1,900), 12% of the people are registered at the bookmobile. Eager children use their elbows to be first inside the car. Photographs of Information Center Service ... More
Library of the Haitian-American Institute, Port au Prince, Haiti
Original caption: The library offers a quiet place for Haitians to study and read. Emphasis is placed on U.S. periodicals and books. Three students read (left to right) a pamphlet on Missouri, a French translat... More
Traveling Library in Vienna, Austria
Original caption: Traveling Library, USIS Staff photo Vienna (Schreiber) Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Mrs. Eder Makes Her Choice Among Her Favorite American Writers
Original caption: Late this afternoon , the 10,000th visitor came to the Linz America House to be enlisted in the library. It was Frau Friederike Exler from Linz who was honored with a gift of 6 books which she... More
Distributing Leaflets about Bookmobile, Panama City
Original caption: A U.S.I.S. employee distributes mimeographed leaflets describing plans for bookmobile.An estimated 5,000 leaflets were distributed in Santa Ana Plaza. Photographs of Information Center Service... More
Katherine Dunham and Members of Her Group
Original caption: Reception for Katherine Dunham, seated, and members of her group. Institute Brasil-Estados Unidos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Young Visitors to the Children's Library of the Amerika Haus
Original caption: The young visitors to the children's library of the Amerika-Haus are greatly pleased with the great variety of entertaining or instructive books being at their disposal. Photographs of Informa... More
Bookmobile Visit to State High School, Rangoon
Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Main Reading Room, Helsinki Information Library
Original caption: The 10,000th borrower's card was issued in July 1952, and membership continues to mount. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
In the Record Library of the Amerika Haus, Linz
Original caption: A new U.S. Information Center at Linz, Upper Austria was opened this morning by American Ambassador Llewellyn N. Thompson, Jr. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Inside the Bookmobile, Stuttgart, Germany
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Traveling USIE Library, San Jose, Costa Rica
Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Children Receiving Gifts - U.S. National Archives Public Domain photog...
Original caption: In spite of color and taste of the bread, the children like it for it was a genuine Red Indian woman who baked it for them. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Austrian Children Enjoy Movie Shorts
Original caption: "Sweeney Steps Out." Sweeney is the star of one of the many instructive and entertaining movie shorts the Linz, Upper Austria American House lends to volunteer operators who display them at r... More
Truck Delivers Reading Materials to the U.S. Information Center, Munic...
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Library Display in Helsinki - U.S. National Archives Public Domain pho...
Original caption: Film Section Reception. U.S.I.S. display window in Helsinki on resources of U.S.I.S. library. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Staff of the Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin, Mexico
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Children's Book Exhibit, Instituto Cultural Dominico, Americano Cuidad...
Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Music Room, Santos, Brazil - U.S. National Archives Public Domain phot...
Original caption: On the walls is part of an exhibition of photographs. The piano, not visible, is on the left. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Biblioteca Franklin at Guadalajara, Mexico
Original caption: Biblioteca Franklin at Guadalajara, which is a branch of the U.S.I.C. in Mexico. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
"America 1951" Exhibit - U.S. National Archives Public Domain photogra...
Original caption: A corner of the U.S.I.S. library at "America 1951" exhibit shows the collection of American books available in the U.K. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Woman at a Traveling Library - U.S. National Archives Public Domain ph...
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Loading Up the Extension Library
Original caption: In front of the U.S. Information Center the book-cases are loaded onto a truck which takes them to the station where they go by rail to various Austrian provinces. Photographs of Information C... More
Amerika Haus Opens at Graz, Austria
Original caption: The large library contains books of any field andi s the special attraction for students. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
U.S.I.S. Reproduction and Distribution Unit
Original caption: Mr. Borge Jensen and Mr. Rodolfo Mendiola are shown. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
U.S. History Class, Bogota, Colombia
Original caption: Seminar for Colombian Teachers of English in Bogota. Ms. Janet Hofmann addressing the group on U.S. history. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Professor Ed Broadcasts an English-Speaking Radio Class, Lima, Peru
Original caption: Binational Center, Lima, Peru. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Children's Painting Class in the Basement, Germany
Original caption: U.S. Information Center, Amerika Haus, Hanover, Germany. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Circulation Desk, Benjamin Franklin Library, Mexico
Original caption: Fernando Penalosa and Maria Teresa Inigo at the busy circulation desk. Through the open doors in back of the patrons at the desk is the entrance to the Main Reading Room. The reference desk is... More
Display of the U.S. Information Center the Trieste National Children's...
Original caption: The exhibit was on the subject of "the American school." Here children are interesting themselves in the photographic exhibit while others are asking the librarian (seated) questions about on... More
The School Teacher, in This Case a Nun, is as Keen as Her Pupils on Se...
Original caption: "Sweeney Steps Out." Sweeney is the star of one of the many instructive and entertaining movie shorts the Linz, Upper Austria American House lends to volunteer operators who display them at r... More
Children Receiving Gifts - U.S. National Archives Public Domain photog...
Original caption: Some 500 Viennese children received a unique gift these days at the Vienna U.S. Information Center: bread baked at the very "Wild West" by a red Indian woman of the Hopi tribe. Photographs of ... More
American Exhibition: The Olympic Games and their People-Uniting Goal
Original caption: Innsbruck, Austria. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Bookmobile, Stuttgart, Germany - U.S. National Archives Public Domain ...
Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Professor Ed With Students, Lima, Peru
Original caption: Representatives of Radio Nacional, the Embassy and "Professor Ed" with students during English broadcast. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
American Library in Sweden - U.S. National Archives Public Domain phot...
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Bookmobile, Heidelberg, Germany
Original caption: The bookmobile is eagerly greeted by the youngest citizens in German towns where free library for children is unknown, where many are seeing books and films about the United States for the fir... More
USIS Music Desk, London, United States information service propaganda
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U.S. Library at Helskinki, Finland
Original caption: The U.S. Library at Helsinki was opened May 1946. In September, 1949 the number of registered borrowers, for the first time, passed the 6,000 mark. Photographs of Information Center Service Ac... More
Concert by Hall Johnson Choir in Vienna
Original caption: The Hall Johnson Choir gave a concert at the Vienna Musikverein Brahmssaal before an enthusiastic audience. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Children's Room at the U.S. Information Library, Helsinki
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Eleanor Roosevelt Visits U.S. Information Center in Stockholm, Sweden
Original caption: Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt chatting with Miss Dorothy Spofford, librarian at the U.S. Information Center in Stockholm, Sweden. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Ignaz Asslinger, a Worker of Saalfelden, is Choosing a Book at the Boo...
Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
American Exhibition with Main Poster and View on Fashion Display and C...
Original caption: Innsbruck, Austria. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Volkswagen Bus Serves as Bookmobile, Stuttgart, Germany
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Work Room, U.S. Information Library, Helsinki
Original caption: The nerve center of the U.S. Information Center is the "work room," where incoming books and magazines are catalogued and made ready for circulation among the library's 10,000 patrons. Photogr... More
Window Displays of the New Amerika Haus Always Attract the Attention o...
Original caption: To further promote cultural ties and mutual understanding, a new Amerika Haus was opened today in Graz. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Herr Max Fichtl, a Sawmill Worker and Volunteer Film Operator, Steps O...
Original caption: "Sweeney Steps Out." Sweeney is the star of one of the many instructive and entertaining movie shorts the Linz, Upper Austria American House lends to volunteer operators who display them at r... More
Showing Children's Books to Boys in Bookmobile, Panama City
Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
10,000 Visitor to America House
Original caption: "Not suspecting anything, Mrs. Eder gives her personal date to be entered in the file index of the library." Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Marti-Lincoln Library of the Cuban-American Cultural Institute
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View of the Library in in Bahia, Brazil
Original caption: One view of the library. Miss Aurelia Oliveira, librarian, is at the extreme right. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Young Visitors to the Children's Library of the Amerika Haus
Original caption: The young visitors to the children's library of the Amerika-Haus are greatly pleased with the great variety of entertaining or instructive books being at their disposal. Photographs of Informa... More
Bookmobile Exhibition, Germany - Public domain portrait drawing
Original caption: The exhibition space of the bookmobile always draws a great number of interested onlookers. During the last weeks exhibitions were shown about Kentucky, the Alaska highway, Texas, Montana, Ill... More
Reading Room, Venice, Italy - U.S. National Archives Public Domain pho...
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General Book Collection and Current Periodicals at the U.S. Library at...
Original caption: General book collection and current periodicals. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Donri W. Watson, a student in
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Donri W. Watson, a student in the Marine Corps Security Cooperation Group Marine Advisor Course, takes notes during immersion training, Sept. 24, 2019 at Fort Story, in Virginia Beach, Vi... More
A team of students in the Marine Corps Security Cooperation
A team of students in the Marine Corps Security Cooperation Group Marine Advisor Course review a scenario during immersion training, Sept. 24, 2019 at Fort Story, in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The training allow... More
Bookmobile in German Towns - U.S. National Archives Public Domain phot...
Original caption: The bookmobile is eagerly greeted by the youngest citizens in German towns where free library for children is unknown, where many are seeing books and films about the United States for the fir... More
Exhibit of American Pocket Books, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Original caption: Exhibit of American Pocket Books at the Library Castro Alves of the Association of Government Employees. When the exhibit ends, the complete collection is to be presented to the library as a g... More
Loan Books to the Zone. Despite Heavy Weather the Coachman of the Plan...
Original caption: The book loan service of the Vienna U.S. Information Center recently sent 300 books to the "Wolfsegg Traunthaler Coal Mining Company," Linz, upon request made through the Regional Public Affa... More
A team of students in the Marine Corps Security Cooperation
A team of students in the Marine Corps Security Cooperation Group Marine Advisor Course practice advising foreign nationals during immersion training, Sept. 24, 2019 at Fort Story, in Virginia Beach, Virginia. ... More
Children Check Out Books at the Benjamin Franklin Library
Original caption: Children wait patiently to have their books signed out by circulation attendants.All previously attended the Saturday afternoon free movies at the Library's auditorium. Photographs of Informat... More
American soldiers earn German marksmanship awards
German air force Col. Jörg Kunze (right), executive course director for the Seminar on Regional Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, awards U.S. Army Private 1st Clas... More
The Employee of the Lenzing Paper and Cellulose Seems to Wonder Whethe...
Original caption: The public affairs division, the so-called Bookmobile in order to serve the Austrian people in remote country areas with new additions of the latest works of american authors in Germany transl... More
Children and Teachers at Bookmobile, Rangoon
Original caption: Both children and teachers show great interest in the bookmobile (State High School, Bahan), U.S. Information Center, Rangoon. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Boy on Burro Reading Book from Benjamin Franklin Library, State of Jal...
Original caption: A boy, his burro, and his bird find perfect contentment in a book from the Benjamin Franklin Library, Ajijic, on the shore of Lake Chapala, State of Jalisco. Photographs of Information Center ... More
Returning Books to their Places
Original caption: Before leaving Dr. Spring, the Librarian (kneeling), aided by Georg Schoenberger, puts the books back in their places. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Children in Reading Room, Koblenz, Germany
Original caption: German children enjoy Koblenz Youth Library on opening day, June 7, 1952. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Mr. Walter Pretzmann, an Employee in the Central Management Bureau of ...
Original caption: The books are on loan for a period of three months completely free of charge. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries
Film Section Reception and Check-out Counter
Original caption: Film section, shows reception area and check-out counter. Map of Denmark pinpoints all locations where USIS films have been shown. Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Forei... More