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Last Cargo of Slaves
Mobile Public Library note on the Clotilda
Clotilda: The Last Slave Voyage
Pamphlet on the Clotilda
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
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
30 Years of Service
Photo of Emma Harris being given flowers by library director Joe Templeton in recognition of 30 years of service at Mobile Public Library
Antique Silver Gift
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…
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…
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
M.O. Beale Scroll of Merit
M.O. Beale Scroll of Merit presented to Emma Harris, Librarian, for selection as an outstanding citizen of community
Dual Celebration Held for Veteran Librarian
Newspaper article about a celebration for Emma Harris's 95th birthday and 50th year as a public librarian for the City of Mobile
The New Miss Minnie
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