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.
Ball and Tableau Invitations
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Death records of Mobile County, Alabama, for the year 1876 Mobile County death records for 1876-1908 available at the Local History & Genealogy…
View the items in Mobile Death Records 1876
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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An album of postcards of Mobile, donated to the Mobile Public Library, Local History & Genealogy division
View the items in Mobile Postcard Album
Oral history interviews of elders in Mobile's African American communities. These items are clippings, and the full interviews are available for…
Contributors: Kern Jackson
View the items in Mobile Tricentennial Video Oral History Project Interview Clips
Digital copies of yearbooks in the Local History & Genealogy Yearbook Collection
Contributors: Oklahoma Correctional Industries
View the items in MPL Digital Yearbook Collection
High School scrapbooks
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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
View the items in Nicholas Holmes Memorial Collection
Funeral cards of residents living in Mobile, Baldwin, Clarke, and Washington Counties
View the items in Reverend Sullivan's Funeral Cards
Images from around Mobile taken from Reverend J. J. Taylor's photograph album
View the items in Reverend Taylor's Photograph Collection