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Photocopy of letter from Pershing to Andrew McShane, Mayor of New Orleans, thanking him for an invitation to attend the American Legion Convention in New Orleans in October of 1922.

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The subject files consist mostly of correspondence and reports, both from internal departments, constiuents, corporations, and other government bodies. Most concern city affairs and economic development.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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...