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Miss Emma Day Proclamation
Proclamation by the City of Mobile designating October 23, 1968, Miss Emma Day
Miss Emma - Alabama Hall of Fame
Presentation to have Emma Cortez Harris admitted to the Alabama Hall of Fame
Virginia Historical Society Membership
Emma Harris's certificate of annual membership for the Virginia Historical Society
Monte L. Moorer Library Groundbreaking
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
Miss Emma is 96
Mobile Register clipping showing Emma Harris and Hank Blasick cutting her cake at her 96th birthday celebration
Emma Harris, M.O. Beale 1961
Mobile Press clipping of Emma Harris being featured in the February 3, 1961, M.O. Beale column
She Didn't Just Live 100 Years - She Served
Mobile Press article about "Miss Emma", now 101 years old
Mobile Public Library's 37th Anniversary
Mobile Register clipping showing Hank Blasick and Emma Harris cutting a cake to celebrate Mobile Public Library's 37th anniversary
Life Membership Presented
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
Mobile County Waters Rededicate Bookmobiles
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