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Mobile, Alabama
Sep. 22, 1966

Presentation of antique silver, gift of the Mitchell Foundation, Inc., given in memory of the late Mr. and Mrs. A.S. Mitchell.
Coffee urn, made in England in 1767, nine years before the signing of the Declaration of…

Newspaper article about a celebration for Emma Harris's 95th birthday and 50th year as a public librarian for the City of Mobile

Mobile Register article and photo of Emma Harris watching Thomas Maroney, president of Maroney Bookmobile Manufacturing Co., handing the keys to the new library bookmobile to Hank Blasick, director of Mobile Public Library

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

Mobile Register clipping announcing Mobile Public Library's Open House to celebrate the new air conditioning

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

Mobile Register photo of Emma Harris being presented with the first honorary lifetime membership for Friends of the Library, by FOL president Mrs. Harold S. Cohen and FOL secretary Bill Roberson

Mobile Register clipping showing Hank Blasick and Emma Harris cutting a cake to celebrate Mobile Public Library's 37th anniversary

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

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