[Men reading in war library service section, Red Cross Building, Walter Reed Hospital] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Men reading in war library service section, Red Cross Building, Walter Reed Hospital], [between 1909 and 1920] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7a/7a0bcf8609e2-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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[Men reading in war library service section, Red Cross Building, Walter Reed Hospital]
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Men sit with books in the war library service section of the Red Cross Building at Walter Reed Hospital, a reading space for patients in the Army's Washington hospital. The American Library Association's War Library Service, formed during World War I, sent books to camps, ships and hospitals, and its reading rooms gave wounded and convalescing soldiers a quiet place to pass long hours of recovery. The picture comes from the National Photo Company Collection, a body of commercial views of Washington, D.C., made in the early twentieth century, and it shows how military medicine in the capital attended to the needs of disabled veterans.
| Created / published | [between 1909 and 1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1920. |
| Notes | National Photo Company Collection. No. W.L.S. #39. |
| Subjects | Walter Reed Army Hospital (Washington, D.C.)--1900-1920. Disabled veterans--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1920. Libraries--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,271 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-183000 |
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