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...

Scope and Contents As in all of the pre-1936 Mayor's papers, the Behrman papers have been reconstructed from fragments previously unprocessed or dispersed in subject files kept in the Official Vertical File. The records are arranged alphabetically by name of corporate or individual correspondent. Correspondence marked with clear filing notes is filed according to the subject designated in the note and arranged chronologically therein. Relatively few records have survived from the 16 years of...

Scope and Contents A collection of permits allowing various citizens to operate businesses without a traditional license. Also includes permits for theaters, shooting galleries, the hanging of signs on buildings, etc. A.S. 228, passed in July 1870, granted the Mayor "discretionary authority to relieve from the payment of city license such small shopkeepers or retailers of goods - intoxicating liquors excepted - as are using less than fifty dollars of capital in their businesses - this relief to be given only...

Scope and Contents A collection of hundreds of pages of signatures requesting new high school buildings be created. The petition reads: "To the Mayor and Common Council of the city of New Orleans: "We, the undersigned citizens, taxpayers, voters, former pupils of the public schools of New Orleans, earnestly urge the prompt erection of new, modern, and adequate High School buildings both for the boys and girls of our city; one of these to be a Boys' High School, the need of which is urgent, imperative, and...