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Article about the Mobile Public Library Board of Trustees naming Emma Harris honorary director emeritus

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

Article about the Mobile Junior Chamber of Commerce donating their scrapbooks to Emma Harris for the Mobile Public Library's Southern History Department

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

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

Article about Emma Harris's trip to visit the public libraries in various states

Press-Register article announcing a tea held to celebrate Emma Harris's 100th birthday

Press-Register article about Emma Harris being names First Lady of Mobile by the City Council of Beta Sigma Phi

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