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ALA War Library Service to Hospitals

During World War I the American Library Association (ALA), through it's War Library Service, provided books and magazines to soldiers and sailors in military hospitals.  ALA produced a number of postcards to advertise its library service.

See also:
Postcards of ALA Library War Service camp libraries
Postcards of ALA Library War Service to the merchant marine

Base Hospital, Camp Custer, Michigan, Reading in the Red Cross House.

A real photo postcard of a War Library Service hospital library in Coblenz, Germany.

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