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Printed materials include Tulane University commencement programs; a copy of the Congressional Record of May 21, 1953 (in which Woods testified before Congress concerning control works limiting the flow of water from the Mississippi River to the Atchafalaya River; 1949, 1953-1954 New Orleans Annual Reports; other miscellaneous items.

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Correspondence and subject files about various issues and city projects. The correspondence and the other records have been kept together by project or issue, unlike other mayor who would separate the two types of files. Researchers looking for specific correspondence should use date and subject to locate it.

Scope and Contents The City Charter provides that the Mayor shall "appoint, with approval of a majority of members of the Council, members of all boards except as otherwise provided in this Charter or by applicable State law." In practice the Mayor appoints, or nominates for appointment, members not only of Charter-created boards and commissions but also of a variety of bodies created by state law, quasi-governmental organizations, and public-private corporate partnerships.The records comprise...

Scope and Contents The records in this collection span the years 1980-1983 and contain correspondence as well as questionnaires distributed to District A constituents. Correspondence is both incoming and outgoing. Included in this series is a single letter from Bryan Wagner concerning funding of the New Orleans Public Library, dated 1984. There are also several folders regarding the topic of cable television programing in the New Orleans area for the years 1980-1981. The second portion of this...

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This collection includes 18 boxes of files from Fitzmorris's tenure as At-Large Councilmember. Major areas of focus are Leases on City owned property, the Sewerage and Water Board, and extensive recordkeeping of his appointments. This collection also includes a small amout of Fitzmorris' personal papers.

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Printed and manuscript material dealing with the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans: lists of employees, correspondence, job reports, drawings. Also included is correspondence dealing with membership in the Masonic Order.

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Manuscript minutes of monthly meetings of the company's board of directors with pasted-in copies of typewritten resolutions.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The surviving records of the Commissioner's Office in the Department of Public Property are limited to a single register book and a series of correspondence/subject files. Records of the Division of Public Buildings, the Division of Public Works, and the City Engineer's Office are described separately.The register records documents received by the Commission and referred to the Commissioner of Public Property for action. Documents are listed by date of receipt and numerically under...

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The records are primarily subject/correspondence files. While most of the folders are labeled "correspondence," also included are reports, memos, financial or legal documents, and minutes of committees, boards or task forces on which Grant sat (these are fragmentary).

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This collection mostly contains administrative records of the department, including inspection reports of private markets, applications for vendors, files for specific markets, and other material. The volumes include newspaper clippings of commodity prices. Some items in these files predate the creation of the Department of Public Markets in 1931. They were produced under the Department of Public Property and became the responsibility of the new department after this date.

Scope and Contents The majority of records for the Sewerage and Water Board are water connection records, known as "water books." These records are very helpful to researchers conducting property research. If your building dates from the period ca. 1907-1960, this series of records could provide you with a very close approximation of the date of construction since the original water and sewer connections would have been made while the structure was going up. Buildings built earlier would have initial...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The records are 3 boxes of subject/correspondence files reconstructed from fragments dispersed in the City Archives' Official Vertical File and from a small series of files that survived intact. The files are primarily in-coming correspondence to the Commissioner of Public Finance. Also included are a variety of reports (financial or otherwise) generated by the Commissioner or his office. Agencies represented by substantial files include the Federal Housing Committee, Mississippi River...