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New Orleans (La.). Police Department

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Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Chief Administrative Office records

 Collection
Identifier: CA-CAO
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1955-2001
Found in: City Archives

George Reyer papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC-184-MS
Scope and Contents

This collection of Reyer's papers includes the official documents appointing him to the various positions that he held in the New Orleans Police Department throughout his career. Also included is a New Orleans Country Club dinner dance program from 1942 and several NOPD-related pages from unidentified publications.

Dates: 1917-1942

Henry Morris collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC-254-MS
Scope and Contents The records in the collection span the 1950s - 1980s and include items that Morris personaly collected, rather than the official records of the New Orleans Police Department.The inventory of official records of the New Olreans Police Department that have been transferred to the Louisiana Division/City Archives & Special Collections can be found on our website.The photograph collection represents primarily images taken during Morrison's time on the NOPD and reflect...
Dates: 1950s-1980s

Joseph I. Giarrusso New Orleans Police Training Division papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC-356
Scope and Contents

Handwritten notes taken by Probationary Patrolman Joseph I. Giarusso during a New Orleans Police Training Recruit Class.

Dates: 1946-1947

Keith Temple cartoons

 Collection
Identifier: SC-327-MS
Scope and Contents

Forty-seven original cartoons that appeared in the Times-Picayune.

Dates: Publication: 1937, 1962-1965

Louise Harvey Healey papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC-119-MS
Scope and Contents

The papers include a scrapbook of clippings illustrating her husband's (Thomas Healey (1872-1948), New Orleans Police Superintendent, 1925-1928) career along with photographs of family and friends. Also included are two loose photographs and Mr. Healey's voter registration certificate.

Dates: 1918-1956

Mayor Andrew McShane records

 Collection
Identifier: CA-AA-McShane
Scope and Contents The McShane papers are primarily correspondence, with a small amount of additional miscellaneous materials, proclamations, speeches, and a report from the Orleans Parish Demonstration Agent. Some of the major subjects represented in the McShane papers are: early plans for an auditorium in the city; an American Legion convention; opposition to local activities in connection with the National Beauty Pagaent in Atlantic City, NJ; the extension of Dauphine Street through the Jackson Barracks...
Dates: 1920-1925
Found in: City Archives

Mayor Ernest N. Morial records

 Collection
Identifier: CA-AA-Morial.E
Scope and Contents Ernest Morial mayor's office records begin in 1977, the year before he took office, and run until he left office in 1986. He organized his office into four sub-units: the Executive Office, Intergovernmental Relations, Planning and Development, and Human Resources (in addition, the Mayor was advised by an Executive Counsel and was assisted in operating city government by his Chief Administrative Officer--unfortunately though, no records from either of these aides has yet been accessioned by...
Dates: 1977-1986
Found in: City Archives

Medical Record, 1952-1954

 File — Volume TS430m
Scope and Contents The record book comprises individual entries arranged in chronological order. Each entry includes an inmate's name, his/her complaint and/or the treatment administered, and the signature of the person providing that treatment. Some of the care providers appear to have been guards at the facility while others were physicians and possibly medical students. Some of the entries are very brief (and sometimes somewhat cryptic) while others are more lengthy and detailed. See examples...
Dates: 1952-1954

New Orleans Alcoholic Beverage Control Board records

 Collection
Identifier: CA-TQ
Scope and Contents

The records include minutes of Board meetings, general files (including some correspondence), files on individual appeals from permit denials, files on individual suspension/revocation petitions, and sound recordings of Board meetings. Also included are related records from the years when the City Council was responsible for alcoholic beverage outlet decisions.

Dates: 1960-1998
Found in: City Archives

New Orleans Police Department, 1978-1986

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Included in the Subject/Department series are files relating not only to charter agencies (departments, boards, and commissions), but also to subunits of those agencies as well as to task forces and other temporary bodies. Also included are files on parochial offices and on several state agencies having very close association with the city of New Orleans.With regard to the New Orleans Police Dept. Superintendent Selection files, the documents have been arranged in the order that...
Dates: 1978-1986

New Orleans Police Department records

 Collection
Identifier: CA-TP
Scope and Contents Researchers should note that the City Archives does not hold full case files; rather, the records of arrest and offense reports offer a general summary of events and a brief description of arrestee, if applicable. Records of the New Orleans Police Department include: Arrests Offense Reports Homicide Reports Administrative Records Financial Records Mugshots Bertillon Cards A number of NOPD records are...
Dates: 1868-1964
Found in: City Archives

Office of Criminal Justice Coordination

 Collection
Identifier: CA-AAC
Scope and Contents

A small group of criminal justice-related publications and other compiled information collected by Office of Criminal Justice Coordination (OCJC).

Dates: 1972-1986
Found in: City Archives

Office of the Mayor records

 Collection
Identifier: CA-AA
Scope and Contents The Office of the Mayor's records contains administrative records from throughout the existence of the office. This includes petitions, licenses, project records, city property files, and correspondence with constituents, politicians, governing bodies, city officials, and city departments, among other administrative records. The responsibilities of the Mayor have changed throughout the history of the city, so the Office of the Mayor records have been subdivided by historical...
Dates: 1805-1996; Majority of material found within 1953 - 1999
Found in: City Archives