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

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Mobile Press clipping of Emma Harris being featured in the February 3, 1961, M.O. Beale column

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Mobile Press article about "Miss Emma", now 101 years old

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

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Press-Register article announcing a tea held to celebrate Emma Harris's 100th birthday

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Mobile Press-Register article announcing the funeral of Emma Harris at Trinity Episcopal Church

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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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