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 (140 total)

Foster Narrative.pdf
Account of the Clotilda by Captain William FosterTranscription of Capt. Foster’s account of the Clotilda voyage and notes accompanying it (with suggestions in [italics]), by Valerie Ellis, Local History and Genealogy, Mobile Public Library:Mr.…

Item 33 The Author and Africatown.pdf
Book review of Emma Langdon Roche's Historic Sketches of the South

Mobilian Tells of This City in Civil War Days.pdf
Newspaper article on Civil War-era South

Item 35 Clotilda The Last Slave Ship - LHG.pdf
Note on the Clotilda

Item 37 A Memoir of Lottie Dennison.pdf
Book summary of A Memoir of Lottie Dennison by Mable Dennison

Item 38 Historic Sketches of the South.pdf
Book excerpt from Emma Langdon Roche's Historic Sketches of the South

Item 40 Real.pdf
Newspaper articles on Capt. Meaher's death and various information about Dahomey

Item 42 Ship Register.pdf
Ship register of the Clotilda

Item 43.pdf
Newspaper article on the Clotilda and its aftermath
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