The records include minutes of the Committee's meetings, videocassette recordings of those meetings, correspondence, reports, and other documentation of the casino tax issue. The Final Report and Recommendations of the Committee, dated December 8, 2000,is filed in the City Documents Collection under call number AA202 2000ct.

The Chief Administrative Office records contain six series of records from 1950 to 2000, including subject files, capital project files, economic statistics for the city, records of the Federal Program Division, office Scrapbooks, and public relations photographs.

The collection contains contracts, project reports and analyses, internal memos, meeting minutes, financial statements, and departamental reports organized by type of administrative file.

This collection contains planning and project records, reports, meeting minutes, program records, and office files.

This collection contains correspondence, reports, copies of council resolutions and other city documents, information sheets, resumes, and inter office memos.

The records of the General Council of the Municipality period include:

• An Inventory of the Archives
• Official Proceedings
• Ordinances and Resolutions
• Messages for the Mayor

Letters, 1858, relative to the suicide of Laura Williams and the subsequent effort of her sister to obtain her property through W.J.A. Fuller, a New York attorney. Included is a letter from Fuller enclosing a letter from Laura Williams to her sister Emma and letters from individuals attesting to fuller's identity (one is from Daniel F. Tiemann, Mayor of New York, and another from attorney and author, A. Oakey Hall). Click the image to view the full collection.

This collection contains four letters, written in French, with translations. Click the image to view digital collection.

• Two letters from Carlos Trudeau addressed to Mr. Petit, Assistant Mayor, relating to surveys of Poydras St., 1804
• Letter from Carlos Trudeau to the Mayor discussing a plan of the Faubourg Ste. Marie, 1804
• Letter from Carlos Trudeau to the Mayor dealing with a plan for levees in the city, 1804

Letter, dated April 2, 1889, from Henry C. Miller, attorney for the Board of Liquidation, City Debt, urging that he be made an assistant City Attorney. Attached is a copy of a resolution of the City Council effecting this request. Click image to view full letter.

Routine reply from the City Attorney's Office, September 7, 1874, signed by H.H. Walsh, probably an assistant attorney in the office. Click image to view full letter.

The City Archives received approximately 700 cu. ft. of records during the last days of the Marc H. Morial administration. Included were records of the various divisions within the Mayor's Office along with records of the Chief Administrative Office and records of the Finance, Health, Property Management, Police, and Parkways Departments. Records for agencies outside of the Mayor's Office are described separately.

The records include correspondence/subject files from Schiro's tenure as Councilman, as well as his terms as Mayor (the 1961 files contain both mayoral and councilmanic papers). Also included is a series of records from the Mayor's Public Relations Office, 1957-1970 (extending slightly into the tenure of Schiro's successor, Moon Landrieu).