Mobile Public Library Takes Remedy for Growing Pains
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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 Daily Register
July 4, 1954
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Miss Emma is Honored
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Article about the Mobile Public Library Board of Trustees naming Emma Harris honorary director emeritus
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Mobile Press
September 19, 1961
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Mrs. Harris Enjoys Interesting Trip
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Article about Emma Harris's trip to visit the public libraries in various states
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Mobile Press
November 11, 1929
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Bookmobile "Miss Emma" No Longer Traveling
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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
Mobile Press
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Mobile Press
Mobile Press photographer, Roy McAuley
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Emma Harris, M.O. Beale 1961
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Mobile Press clipping of Emma Harris being featured in the February 3, 1961, M.O. Beale column
Mobile Press
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Mobile Press
February 3, 1961
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Mobile Jaycee Records Are Placed in Library
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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
Mobile Press Register
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Mobile Press Register
November 28, 1954
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She Didn't Just Live 100 Years - She Served
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Mobile Press article about "Miss Emma", now 101 years old
Mobile Press staff reporter, Natalie Crozier
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Mobile Press
October 24, 1974
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Arless Nixon, Director of Library
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Article about Mobile Public Library, including a section for when it first opened as a free public library, a section for Emma Harris, the library's improving financial status, the Fine Arts room, and a section for director Arless Nixon
Mobile Press-Register
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Funeral Today for Director Emeritus of Mobile Library
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Mobile Press-Register article announcing the funeral of Emma Harris at Trinity Episcopal Church
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Mobile Press-Register
May 5, 1976
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Mobilian Honored
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Press-Register article announcing a tea held to celebrate Emma Harris's 100th birthday
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October 27, 1974
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