Mobile Public Library Digital Collections

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.

Browse Items (45 total)

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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

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Article about the Mobile Junior Chamber of Commerce donating their scrapbooks to Emma Harris for the Mobile Public Library's Southern History Department

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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

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Mobile Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution certificate presented to Emma Harris (Mrs. Lewis William Harris) for being a chapter member for 25 or more years

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

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

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

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Proclamation by the City of Mobile designating October 23, 1968, Miss Emma Day

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Presentation to have Emma Cortez Harris admitted to the Alabama Hall of Fame

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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"
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