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 (100 total)

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Press-Register article about Emma Harris being names First Lady of Mobile by the City Council of Beta Sigma Phi

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Article announcing the death of Emma Harris, 101 years old, and listing her various contributions to the Mobile community and Mobile Public Library

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Newspaper article about a celebration for Emma Harris's 95th birthday and 50th year as a public librarian for the City of Mobile

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Mobile Register article and photo of Emma Harris watching Thomas Maroney, president of Maroney Bookmobile Manufacturing Co., handing the keys to the new library bookmobile to Hank Blasick, director of Mobile Public Library

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Article inviting people to join the Library Club of America at any Mobile Public Library location and Bookmobile, including a listing of the bookmobile's summer schedule

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Mobile Register clipping, including photo, about Moreland Griffith Smith, Alabama Society of Mayflower Descendants governor, presenting Emma Harris with a complete collection of the society's publication, "The Mayflower Quarterly"

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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

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Mobile Register clipping showing Emma Harris and Hank Blasick cutting her cake at her 96th birthday celebration

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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

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Article about the Alabama Library Association's convention in Anniston, Alabama, announcing Borden Deal as the winner of the Alabama Library Association's seventh annual literary award, and Emma Harris as the recipient of a citation for 45 years of…
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