Mobile Public Library Digital Collections

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.

Browse Items (27 total)

Celebrating cultures on both sides of the bay Mar. 18 2007 Press-Register 1B, 6B.pdf
Newspaper article on the Africatown Folk Festival and other festivals

Item 8.pdf
Newspaper article on Sylviane Diouf's presentation on the Clotilda

Granny Dennison, local historian, dies Nov. 26 2009 Press-Register 5C.pdf
Newspaper article on the death of Mable Dennison

Item 11 The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Making of AfricaTown,USA.pdf
Book review of Natalie S. Robertson's book, The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Making of AfricaTown, USA

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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 to host community scholars May 11 2008 Press-Register 6E Redo.pdf
Newspaper article on scholarly convention in Mobile
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