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.

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Back of front cover, including inserts of resolutions authorizing the execution of quit claims deeds, dated 5/19/1936 and 4/25/1933.

The cover underneath the insert shows the manufacturer, Mobile Printing & Binding Co., at 63 St. Michael St.

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Front cover
Plan of Magnolia Cemetery 1870
Cemetery Lots Index, Square 1 through Square 34

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Part 2 of Eugene Walter's Conversations About Mobile oral history interview, in which he discusses his return to the United States and Mobile.

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Part 1 of Eugene Walter's Conversations About Mobile oral history interview, in which he discusses his early life and travels in Europe.

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A painted sketch of a feminine, blue-faced, mask, with a crescent moon on the head, half of the face colored in a slightly darker blue with stars, and a pearl necklace with letters in alternating beads spelling "Sensitive."

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A painted sketch of a mask resembling a freckled sun with a floral wreath crown, with "Mask, stage right" written on the bottom right side of the page.

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A painted costume design sketch of a character with a puffy, white, clown-like outfit with a fluffed out collar, holding a staff with a red flower at the top. Façade is written on the bottom left side of the page, but it is not known from which poem…

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A painted costume design sketch for a woman in a pink dress and white apron, one leg in a blue stocking, with "Meg" written in pencil in the bottom right corner, presumably based on nursey-maid Meg, a character in the Façade poem, "Fox-Trot 'Old Sir…

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A painted costume design sketch for a tall mustachioed man holding a rifle, with "Old Sir Faulk" written in pencil in the bottom left corner, presumably based on Old Sir Faulk, a character in the Façade poem, "Fox-Trot 'Old Sir Faulk'."

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A painted costume design sketch for a lady in mostly yellow clothing who is painting a canvas, with "Mrs. Marigold" written in pencil in the bottom left corner, presumably based on the character Mrs. Marigold, in the Façade poem, "Polka."
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