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.

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Part 1 of Eugene Walter's Conversations About Mobile oral history interview, in which he discusses his early life and travels in Europe.

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A painted costume design sketch of a character with a puffy, white, clown-like outfit with a fluffed out collar, holding a staff with a red flower at the top. Façade is written on the bottom left side of the page, but it is not known from which poem…

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A painted costume design sketch for a woman in a pink dress and white apron, one leg in a blue stocking, with "Meg" written in pencil in the bottom right corner, presumably based on nursey-maid Meg, a character in the Façade poem, "Fox-Trot 'Old Sir…

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A painted costume design sketch for a tall mustachioed man holding a rifle, with "Old Sir Faulk" written in pencil in the bottom left corner, presumably based on Old Sir Faulk, a character in the Façade poem, "Fox-Trot 'Old Sir Faulk'."

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A painted costume design sketch for a lady in mostly yellow clothing who is painting a canvas, with "Mrs. Marigold" written in pencil in the bottom left corner, presumably based on the character Mrs. Marigold, in the Façade poem, "Polka."

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A painted costume design sketch for an admiral with a blue hat and a pink butterfly on the tip of a wand, presumably based on Sir Joshua Jebb, the admiral character in Edith Sitwell's Façade poem, "En Famille."

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Promotional events for Mobile Gas Company. Man wearing polka-dotted outfit and conical hat drives cart pulled by a donkey, with a sign that reads "You are invited. Old Stove Roundup. $13.15 allowed on your old stove. $1 down payment...12 months to…
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