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

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Mobile Press clipping of Emma Harris being featured in the February 3, 1961, M.O. Beale column

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Newspaper article and photo about the "Miss Emma" bookmobile being beyond repair and becoming a makeshift library branch in the Pleasant Valley Shopping Center

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

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Article about the Mobile Public Library Board of Trustees naming Emma Harris honorary director emeritus

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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 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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Mobile Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution certificate presented to Emma Harris (Mrs. Lewis William Harris) for being a chapter member for 25 or more years

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Certificate presented to Emma Harris for Citizens Recognition Day for Mobile's 250th Anniversary Celebration on June 12, 1961

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Photo of Emma Harris at a dinner table with a group of people
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