Y.M.C.A. Hotel Pavillon Paris - Writing and reading room

Y.M.C.A. Hotel Pavillon Paris - Writing and reading room

This postcard depicts the writing and reading room of the Y.M.C.A. canteen Elisabeth Gilman managed in Paris. In her article "The Enlisted Men in Paris," Gilman describes a library of a few hundred volumes that was greatly appreciated by visiting soldiers.

circa 1918

Ferdinand Hamburger University Archives, Johns Hopkins University