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Collection Photo, Print, Drawing Activities of the Library War Service of the American Library Association during World War I

About this Item

Title

  • Activities of the Library War Service of the American Library Association during World War I

Summary

  • Images show Library War Service activities and facilities in the U.S. and overseas. Includes book drive promotions; floats used in book drive parades; book mobiles; book collection sites in the U.S.; trucks delivering books to libraries; exterior and interior views of dispatch offices in the U.S. and overseas; people preparing books for shipment at dispatch offices; boxes of books arriving or shipping out of an overseas port. Also includes soldiers reading in war service libraries or in military hospitals; interior and exterior views of the libraries; some portraits of librarians. Views of Hawaii, including soldiers, military facilities, and a map of war service library stations in Oahu, Hawaii. Also one letterpress print noting book donations made by Col. Theodore Roosevelt which reproduces a facsimile of Roosevelt's inscribed book card; a few photographs of workers preparing braille books for blind soldiers.

Names

  • American Library Association, donor

Created / Published

  • ca. 1918-1919.

Headings

  • -  American Library Association.--War Service
  • -  Soldiers' libraries--1910-1920
  • -  Book drives--United States--1910-1920
  • -  Bookmobiles--United States--1910-1920
  • -  Librarians--1910-1920
  • -  War work--1910-1920
  • -  Reading--1910-1920
  • -  Soldiers--American--1910-1920

Format Headings

  • Group portraits--1910-1920.
  • Letterpress works--1910-1920.
  • Portrait photographs--1910-1920.
  • Postcards--1910-1920.

Genre

  • Portrait photographs--1910-1920
  • Group portraits--1910-1920
  • Postcards--1910-1920
  • Letterpress works--1910-1920

Notes

  • -  Arrangement: Organized into sixteen subdivisions as follows: Blind soldiers learning to read (LOT 13440-1); Book drives (LOT 13440-2); Military camps (LOT 13440-3); Dispatch offices (LOT 13440-4); Exhibits (LOT 13440-5); Floats (LOT 13440-6); Hawaii activities (LOT 13440-7); Hagerstown, Md., activities (LOT 13440-8); ALA Headquarters (LOT 13440-9); Hospital libraries (LOT 13440-10); Librarians (LOT 13440-11); Marine camps (LOT 13440-12); Motion pictures (LOT 13440-13); Navy camps (LOT 13440-14); Overseas activities & war libraries (LOT 13440-15); Miscellaneous (LOT 13440-16).
  • -  LOT title devised by Library staff.
  • -  Various photographers and news photo agencies represented in the LOT.
  • -  "Please credit American Library Association" stamped on the verso of most photographs.
  • -  Gift; American Library Association; 1919; (DLC/PP-1919:46006).
  • -  Gift; American Library Association; 1919; (DLC/PP-1919:PR06CN105).

Medium

  • 912 photographic prints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.
  • 50 photomechanical prints (postcards) : halftone, b&w ; 9 x 14 cm.
  • 1 print : letterpress, b&w ; 25 x 18 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 13440 (F) [P&P]

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C., 20540 USA

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 00650022

Rights Advisory

  • Rights status of individual images not evaluated. For more information see reference aid: "Copyright and Other Restrictions Which Apply to Publication and Other Forms of Distribution of Images: Sources for Information" (http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html).

Online Format

  • image

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  • Rights Advisory: Rights status of individual images not evaluated. For more information see reference aid: "Copyright and Other Restrictions Which Apply to Publication and Other Forms of Distribution of Images: Sources for Information" (http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html)
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  • Call Number: LOT 13440 (F) [P&P]
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Cite This Item

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Chicago citation style:

American Library Association, Donor. Activities of the Library War Service of the American Library Association during World War I. United States, ca. 1918. to 1919. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/00650022/.

APA citation style:

American Library Association, D. (ca. 1918) Activities of the Library War Service of the American Library Association during World War I. United States, ca. 1918. to 1919. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/00650022/.

MLA citation style:

American Library Association, Donor. Activities of the Library War Service of the American Library Association during World War I. to 1919. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/00650022/>.