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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.

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...

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Typewritten letter, dated June 27, 1922, signed by Harding and addressed to Mayor Andrew McShane of New Orleans, dealing with the annual American Legion Convention to be held in the city.