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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

Newspaper article and photo about the "Miss Emma" bookmobile being beyond repair and becoming a makeshift library branch in the Pleasant Valley Shopping Center

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…

Newspaper article about a celebration for Emma Harris's 95th birthday and 50th year as a public librarian for the City of Mobile

Mobile Press clipping of Emma Harris being featured in the February 3, 1961, M.O. Beale column

Mobile Press-Register article announcing the funeral of Emma Harris at Trinity Episcopal Church

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 announcing the death of Emma Harris, 101 years old, and listing her various contributions to the Mobile community and Mobile Public Library

Mobile Register clipping showing Emma Harris and Hank Blasick cutting her cake at her 96th birthday celebration

Article about the Mobile Public Library Board of Trustees naming Emma Harris honorary director emeritus