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 (24 total)

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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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Article about the Mobile Public Library Board of Trustees naming Emma Harris honorary director emeritus

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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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Presentation to have Emma Cortez Harris admitted to the Alabama Hall of Fame

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M.O. Beale Scroll of Merit presented to Emma Harris, Librarian, for selection as an outstanding citizen of community

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Mobile Register photo of Emma Harris being presented with the first honorary lifetime membership for Friends of the Library, by FOL president Mrs. Harold S. Cohen and FOL secretary Bill Roberson

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Mobile Public Library note on the Clotilda

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Photo and Mobile Press clipping about Emma Harris and Irma Meyer being honored for their library service by county commissioner Leroy Stevens and city commissioner Joe Langan

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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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Note of presentation
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