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 (105 total)

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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

Benin roots mix with Africatown cuisine Nov. 10 2002 Mobile Register 1B, 3B.pdf
Newspaper article on Africatown and Benin

Black heritage trail takes shape Mar. 30 2007 Mobile County Neighbors 1, 6.pdf
Newspaper article on Mobile's black heritage trail including Africatown markers

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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

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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…

Bring Port City back to water roots June 10 2001 Mobile Register 1B, 3B.pdf
Newspaper article on attractions in Mobile

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Burial landmark is unveiled in Plateau for Cudjoe Lewis 20 Feb. 2001 5B Mobile Register.pdf
Newspaper article on Cudjo's grave

Businessman, historian Jack Friend dies Nov. 13 2010 Press-Register 1C, 3C.pdf
Newspaper article on local historian Jack Friend's death
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