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 (23 total)

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 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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Mardi Gras Invitations

OOM 1883.pdf

Ball and Tableau Invitations

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Magnolia Cemetery Plat Book, 1870-1983

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Plat book of Magnolia Cemetery, showing lots 1 through 36 and the Public Burial Grounds (also called Pauper Graves), with owner of each section shown.…

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Growing Up in Mobile: Great Depression Slide Collection

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35mm slides of Mobile during the Great Depression

Contributors: USA Photographic Archives

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Growing Up In Mobile: Depression & Wartime, 1929-1949

Elizabeth Vickers Courtney . 1 Jul 1983.mp3

Contributors: USA Photographic Archives,
Spring Hill College,
Mobile Historic Development Commission

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Eugene Walter Façade Sketches

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Scenery and costume designs sketched by Eugene Walter in 1958, inspired by "Façade - An Entertainment," an artistic work in which Dame Edith Louisa…

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Emma Cortez Harris Collection

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Selection of photographs, certificates, and newspaper articles detailing the life and career of Emma Cortez Harris, Mobile Public Library's first…

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Conversations About Mobile, with Eugene Walter

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Oral history interviews of Eugene Ferdinand Walter, native Mobilian, poet, actor, screenwriter, cryptographer, gourmet chef, etc., known as Mobile's…

Contributors: Eugene Walter

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Clotilda Collection

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Digital reproduction of the Clotilda archival collection, also including items from the Clotilda and Africatown vertical files.

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