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.
Grant application; background, methodology, objectives, and plan for Architectural Study and Oral History projects for "Growing Up In Mobile: Depression & Wartime" project
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
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 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
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