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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.

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Appendix II . Toulminville Neighborhood.pdf
Article from The News Herald, September 21, 1978, with attached photos of the current St. Stephens Rd., Stone St., and Craft Hwy. intersection

Critique and Transcript . Elizabeth Barrett Gould.pdf
Imaginary diary entries for hypothetical persons Bill Bates and his descendant, Bill Bates V, written by 15 year old John Adams as part of his Growing Up in Mobile: Depression & Wartime project, with critique by historian Elizabeth Barrett Gould

Architectural Study . Rebecca Harrison.pdf
A comparison of a wealthy upper-class house of 1930 with a wealthy upper-class house of the turn of the century

Front Porch . Vickers House . Harrison.jpg
Drawings by Rebecca Harrison of the Vickers House, built 1935-1936

Tacon Tissington House . Harrison.jpg
Drawings by Rebecca Harrison of the Tissington House, built 1901

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