Mobile Public Library Local History & Genealogy Library
The Local History and Genealogy Library is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to the history of Mobile, and the greater Gulf Coast region.
Article about Mobile Public Library, including a section for when it first opened as a free public library, a section for Emma Harris, the library's improving financial status, the Fine Arts room, and a section for director Arless Nixon
Mobile Register clipping, including photo, about Moreland Griffith Smith, Alabama Society of Mayflower Descendants governor, presenting Emma Harris with a complete collection of the society's publication, "The Mayflower Quarterly"
Article about the Mobile Junior Chamber of Commerce donating their scrapbooks to Emma Harris for the Mobile Public Library's Southern History Department
Article about the Alabama Library Association's convention in Anniston, Alabama, announcing Borden Deal as the winner of the Alabama Library Association's seventh annual literary award, and Emma Harris as the recipient of a citation for 45 years of…
Article inviting people to join the Library Club of America at any Mobile Public Library location and Bookmobile, including a listing of the bookmobile's summer schedule