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 Collections (22 total)

Mardi Gras Invitations

OOM 1883.pdf

Ball and Tableau Invitations

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Mobile Death Records 1876

Geo Hodrick #841.pdf

Death records of Mobile County, Alabama, for the year 1876

Mobile County death records for 1876-1908 available at the Local History & Genealogy…

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Mobile Death Records 1908

Harold R. Barney #1400.pdf

Death records of Mobile County, Alabama, for the year 1908

Mobile County death records for 1876-1908 available at the Local History & Genealogy…

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Mobile Postcard Album

MP306.jpg

An album of postcards of Mobile, donated to the Mobile Public Library, Local History & Genealogy division

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Mobile Tricentennial Video Oral History Project Interview Clips

VOHP Interview List.pdf

Oral history interviews of elders in Mobile's African American community. These items are clippings, and the full interviews are available for viewing…

Contributors: Kern Jackson

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MPL Digital Yearbook Collection

1950.pdf

Digital copies of yearbooks in the Local History & Genealogy Yearbook Collection

Contributors: Oklahoma Correctional Industries

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MPL Scrapbook Collection

Graduation Days, 1943.pdf

High School scrapbooks

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Nicholas Holmes Memorial Collection

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Photographs taken of Mobile buildings for a project assigned to architect Nicholas Holmes, as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey.

Contributors: Photographer, W.N. Manning, Photographer, E.W. Russell, Photographer, Jack E. Boucher

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Reverend Sullivan's Funeral Cards

Walsh, Madeline.pdf

Funeral cards of residents living in Mobile, Baldwin, Clarke, and Washington Counties

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Reverend Taylor's Photograph Collection

Troops in Mobile no tag.jpg

Images from around Mobile taken from Reverend J. J. Taylor's photograph album

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