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 (5 total)

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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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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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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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A citation presented to Emma Harris by the Alabama Library Association for distinguished service to Alabama librarianship, 1917-1963

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Mobile Register article about Mobile Public Library's Ben May Main location shifting their reference materials into what was until then the Museum Room, due to the growing collection
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