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 (174 total)

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Photos of the General Theophilus Toulmin House, originally at 552 Wilson Avenue, Touminville, AL, dismantled in 1974 and rebuilt on University of South Alabama campus, at 307 University Blvd., Mobile, AL, under supervision of Nicholas H. Holmes, Jr.

Torpedo Boat [unknown].jpg
Image of an unidentified Mississippi torpedo boat in the Mobile Bay.

The Bust of Cudjoe Lewis Jan. 24 2002 Mobile Register 1B.pdf
Newspaper photographs of Cudjo's bust and its pedestal

clotilda 4.jpg
Photograph of the wreck of the Clotilda north of Chicabogue, as cited in Emma lnagdon Roche's "Historic Sketches of the South"

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Photo of the Tate House, with late period ironwork, at 304 State Street, Mobile, AL

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Photos of the Tardy-Thorp House, at 112 S. Conception St., Mobile, AL

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Street Scene [unknown].jpg
Image along an unidentified street.

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Photos of Spring Hill College, at 4307 Old Shell Road, Mobile, AL, including images copied from the 75th anniversary yearbook of the original building, the 1839 plot, and the old college ruins after the fire of 1869

Spring Hill College Entrance.jpg
Image of the entrance to Spring Hill College.

Spring Hill College Building.jpg
Image of the administration building on campus at Spring Hill College.
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