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 (5433 total)

8 Dec . stole best years of life.pdf
News article about the pandemic being most lethal to persons under the age of 30

Sub-headline: Young and Vigorous of Nation's Population Suffered Greatest Depletion

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1968.pdf
B.C. Rain High School, Mobile, AL, Yearbook for 1968

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Casmarah Mani talks about changes in his community, the effects of desegregation, and race relations.

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Ad page for Lichtbach Bros., the New Orleans Tailors

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Title page of "Souvenir History of the Mobile Fire and Police Departments, 1819 to 1902", with image of fireman on a horse-drawn wagon

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Ad page for Pollock & Bernheimer

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Ad page for Southern Supply Co., Railway and Mill Supplies

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Ad page for the new Battle House Hotel, with images of the dining room, main office, lobby, and parlor lobby/ sun parlor

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Listing of mayors of Mobile, with short accounts of terms served, and portrait of the then current mayor, W.F. Walsh. Portraits for all listed mayors are on page 9.

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Ad page for L. Hammel & Co. Department Store

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