Books in the War: The Romance of Library War Service

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Title

Books in the War: The Romance of Library War Service

Subject

World War (1914-1918)
Soldiers
Sailors
Marines

Description

This book details the efforts made during World War I to send reading materials to soldiers, sailors, and marines fighting overseas. The author, Theodore Wesley Koch, a librarian in the Library of Congress during World War I, assisted in the efforts of the American Library Association's Library War Service program, which established camp libraries for military personnel and distributed some ten million books and magazines.

Publisher

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

Date

ca. 1919

Format

jpg

Language

en

Identifier

400263
World War I Broadsides
3672

Original Format

broadside
color
1

Physical Dimensions

30 x 44 cm