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 (45 total)

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Photo of Emma Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Guenter Jansen, Library Director, and Frank Frazer, Chair, Library Board

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Photo and Mobile Press clipping about Emma Harris and Irma Meyer being honored for their library service by county commissioner Leroy Stevens and city commissioner Joe Langan

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Mobile Register photo of Emma Harris being presented with the first honorary lifetime membership for Friends of the Library, by FOL president Mrs. Harold S. Cohen and FOL secretary Bill Roberson

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Photo of Emma Harris sitting at a table with Hank Blasick, Guy Chappell, Yvonne Chappell, and Mrs. Skipper, at a luncheon at what is possibly the Alabama Library Association Convention

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M.O. Beale Scroll of Merit presented to Emma Harris, Librarian, for selection as an outstanding citizen of community

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Mobile Register clipping, including photo, about Moreland Griffith Smith, Alabama Society of Mayflower Descendants governor, presenting Emma Harris with a complete collection of the society's publication, "The Mayflower Quarterly"

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Presentation to have Emma Cortez Harris admitted to the Alabama Hall of Fame

Proclamation.pdf
Proclamation by the City of Mobile designating October 23, 1968, Miss Emma Day

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Article announcing the death of Emma Harris, 101 years old, and listing her various contributions to the Mobile community and Mobile Public Library

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Mobile Register clipping showing Emma Harris and Hank Blasick cutting her cake at her 96th birthday celebration
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