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Photo of Library Director Guenter Jansen pulling back a black curtain to show Emma Harris her portrait

Photo of Emma Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Guenter Jansen, Library Director, and Frank Frazer, Chair, Library Board

Photo close up of Emma Harris

Mobile Register clipping dated October 16, 1968, showing Emma Harris, Nicholas S. McGowin, and Hank Blasick at the ceremonial groundbreaking for construction of the Dr. Monte L. Moorer Library

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

Mobile Register clipping showing Hank Blasick and Emma Harris cutting a cake to celebrate Mobile Public Library's 37th anniversary

Mobile Register photo of Emma Harris being presented with the first honorary lifetime membership for Friends of the Library, by FOL president Mrs. Harold S. Cohen and FOL secretary Bill Roberson

Mobile Register article with a photo of Howard Barney christening the "Miss Emma" bookmobile with water from the four points of Mobile County where the bookmobiles traveled

Mobile Register clipping announcing Mobile Public Library's Open House to celebrate the new air conditioning

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"