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American Library Association, Library War Service – Antique Print

American Library Association, Library War Service, [1918] — vintage poster
American Library Association, Library War Service, [1918]. Vintage poster from the Books & Writers collection.

(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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The American Library Association's War Service was a wartime effort to put books in the hands of American soldiers, and this poster makes its appeal in plain terms, asking the public to support the work. During the First World War, the ALA ran libraries in military camps and in France, and it collected reading material for troops who had little access to books. Posters like this one were part of a broader campaign of civilian war work in 1917 and 1918, when home-front groups raised money and donated volumes to keep servicemen reading. The print is a halftone reproduction, a common method for mass-produced posters of the period.

Created / published[1918]
Medium1 photomechanical print (poster) : halftone ; 76 x 50 cm.
GenreWar posters American 1910-1920.Halftone photomechanical prints 1910-1920.
SubjectsAmerican Library Association.--War Service. World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--United States. War work--1910-1920. Reading--1910-1920. Soldiers--American--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,795 × 4,701 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-221402

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