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National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Application & Project Description
Grant application; background, methodology, objectives, and plan for Architectural Study and Oral History projects for "Growing Up In Mobile: Depression & Wartime" project
Donation Note
Note of presentation
Mobile Public Library Takes Remedy for Growing Pains
Mobile Register article about Mobile Public Library's Ben May Main location shifting their reference materials into what was until then the Museum Room, due to the growing collection
Honored for Library Service
Photo and Mobile Press clipping about Emma Harris and Irma Meyer being honored for their library service by county commissioner Leroy Stevens and city commissioner Joe Langan
Miss Emma is Honored
Article about the Mobile Public Library Board of Trustees naming Emma Harris honorary director emeritus
Mrs. Harris Enjoys Interesting Trip
Article about Emma Harris's trip to visit the public libraries in various states
Mobile Jaycee Records Are Placed in Library
Article about the Mobile Junior Chamber of Commerce donating their scrapbooks to Emma Harris for the Mobile Public Library's Southern History Department
Arless Nixon, Director of Library
Article about Mobile Public Library, including a section for when it first opened as a free public library, a section for Emma Harris, the library's improving financial status, the Fine Arts room, and a section for director Arless Nixon
Mobilian Honored
Press-Register article announcing a tea held to celebrate Emma Harris's 100th birthday
Mrs. Harris Named First Lady
Press-Register article about Emma Harris being names First Lady of Mobile by the City Council of Beta Sigma Phi