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 (100 total)

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Article about Emma Harris's trip to visit the public libraries in various states

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Mobile Register clipping dated October 16, 1968, showing Emma Harris, Nicholas S. McGowin, and Hank Blasick at the ceremonial groundbreaking for construction of the Dr. Monte L. Moorer Library

Mobilian Tells of This City in Civil War Days.pdf
Newspaper article on Civil War-era South

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Press-Register article announcing a tea held to celebrate Emma Harris's 100th birthday

Mobile's Kwanzaa holiday on rise Dec. 28 2003 Mobile Register 1B, 4B.pdf
Newspaper article on Kwanzaa in Mobile

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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

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Article inviting people to join the Library Club of America at any Mobile Public Library location and Bookmobile, including a listing of the bookmobile's summer schedule

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Article about the Mobile Junior Chamber of Commerce donating their scrapbooks to Emma Harris for the Mobile Public Library's Southern History Department

Mobile given plaque honoring noted slave.pdf
Newspaper article on a plaque honoring Cudjo Lewis

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Mobile Register article with a photo of Howard Barney christening the "Miss Emma" bookmobile with water from the four points of Mobile County where the bookmobiles traveled
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