Darius Davis Prepares WPA Traveling Libraries for POWs

Notes:

Secretary Daris A. Davis prepares circulating libraries for shipment to prisoners assigned to Arbeitskommandoes. Prisoners working in labor detachments could not visit the prison camp library and longed for access to books. Each traveling library carried a set of approximately thirty books. When the members of the labor detachment read all of the books, they could exchange the library for a new set of books.

Date Created:

1916-01-01T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Western Michigan University. Libraries

Subject Topic:

Germany, Education, YMCA, WPA, Darius Alton Davis, Reading, Traveling Libraries, Labor Detachments, World War 1914-1918, Diplomatic History, European History, Military History, and Political History

Rights:

No Copyright - United States. Physical ownership of materials: For the Millions of Men Now Under Arms, 1:8 (July 31, 1916): 24A.

URL:

https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/wwi_pow_camps/252