This storeroom in the Geneva headquarters of the World\u27s Alliance of YMCA\u27s is where secretraries prepared circulating libraries for shipment to labor detachments in the Central Power and Allied nations. The walls of the hallway are covered with stacks of circulating libraries, a testiment to their popularity among prisoners.https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/wwi_pow_camps/1248/thumbnail.jp
The library was a critical service for POW\u27s as books allowed prisoners to leave the confines of ...
Secretary Daris A. Davis prepares circulating libraries for shipment to prisoners assigned to Arbe...
Ten World\u27s Alliance secretaries who worked in War Prisoners\u27 Aid service in Bulgaria meet in ...
Cover of the Bibliotheque des prisonniers de guerre, published by the World\u27s Alliance of YMC...
A World\u27s Alliance secretary is compiling a list of books which will be sorted into traveling ...
World Alliance secretaries prepare books for shipment to prisoners of war in Allied and Central ...
British, Russian, French, and Belgian prisoners of war cram into the reading room of the YMCA hall a...
A Belgian prisoner of war peruses the bookshelves in the Flemish library at Goettingen. The library...
French, British, and Russian prisoners of war pack the YMCA reading room in Goettingen. To maximize...
This photograph illustrates the French library collection at Ohrdruf. The American YMCA provided a ...
Russian prisoners administer the book collection in this library in an unidentified German priso...
French prisoners borrow books from an unidentified prison camp library in Germany. POW\u27s who r...
English, Scottish, and French prisoners pour over books and journals in the YMCA Reading Room in ...
Social workers and neutral inspectors often visited prison camps to meet prisoners. In this wood bl...
The World\u27s Alliance in Geneva ran a War Prisoners\u27 Aid (WPA) Inquiry Office to help friends a...
The library was a critical service for POW\u27s as books allowed prisoners to leave the confines of ...
Secretary Daris A. Davis prepares circulating libraries for shipment to prisoners assigned to Arbe...
Ten World\u27s Alliance secretaries who worked in War Prisoners\u27 Aid service in Bulgaria meet in ...
Cover of the Bibliotheque des prisonniers de guerre, published by the World\u27s Alliance of YMC...
A World\u27s Alliance secretary is compiling a list of books which will be sorted into traveling ...
World Alliance secretaries prepare books for shipment to prisoners of war in Allied and Central ...
British, Russian, French, and Belgian prisoners of war cram into the reading room of the YMCA hall a...
A Belgian prisoner of war peruses the bookshelves in the Flemish library at Goettingen. The library...
French, British, and Russian prisoners of war pack the YMCA reading room in Goettingen. To maximize...
This photograph illustrates the French library collection at Ohrdruf. The American YMCA provided a ...
Russian prisoners administer the book collection in this library in an unidentified German priso...
French prisoners borrow books from an unidentified prison camp library in Germany. POW\u27s who r...
English, Scottish, and French prisoners pour over books and journals in the YMCA Reading Room in ...
Social workers and neutral inspectors often visited prison camps to meet prisoners. In this wood bl...
The World\u27s Alliance in Geneva ran a War Prisoners\u27 Aid (WPA) Inquiry Office to help friends a...
The library was a critical service for POW\u27s as books allowed prisoners to leave the confines of ...
Secretary Daris A. Davis prepares circulating libraries for shipment to prisoners assigned to Arbe...
Ten World\u27s Alliance secretaries who worked in War Prisoners\u27 Aid service in Bulgaria meet in ...