Association Reading Room in a POW Camp

Notes:

English, Scottish, and French prisoners pour over books and journals in the YMCA Reading Room in an unidentified German prison camp. The facility is crowded with patrons as literature helped the prisoners mentally escape from the confines of the prison camp.

Date Created:

1917-01-01T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Western Michigan University. Libraries

Subject Topic:

Germany, Education, YMCA, Reading Room, Reading, French POWs, British POWs, World War 1914-1918, Diplomatic History, European History, Military History, and Political History

Rights:

No Copyright - United States. Physical ownership of materials: Red Triangle Weekly, No. 120 (April 27, 1917): 372.

URL:

https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/wwi_pow_camps/254