Browse Collections (22 total)

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

Photos taken by Clinton King, a past president of the Mobile Genealogical Society, of Mobile in the 1960s and 1970s, including hurricane damage,…

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

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

Book detailing the history of the Mobile Fire and Police Departments, from 1819 to 1902, including photographs of the fire and police department…

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

The influenza pandemic of 1918, also known as the Spanish flu, struck the state of Alabama in September of 1918, with devastating results. The…

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

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

Hand colored maps of the city of Mobile, AL. Blank pages between each map

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