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 Bridge [Hero-Hackett Bridge], and the New Orleans Police Department.

The following subjects are covered in these records:

• Property left to the City by Isaac Delgado
• Clean-up of Bayou St. John conducted during the 1930s
• Disputed taxes--letters from citizens (or their attorneys) regarding errors in tax bills and/or requests for refunds comprise a considerable portion of the correspondence. These letters are filed under the name of the taxpayer (often in alphabetical miscellaneous files)
• Proofs of engravings for liquor and wine tax stamps
• The 1939 visit of Anastasio Samoza.
• Correspondence concering Beauregard Square as the proposed site for the Municipal Auditorium.
• A 1918 letter from a descendant of Bienville asking that her daughter be adopted by the state and the City Attorney's reply.
• Correspondence concerning the purchase of a painting of Robert E. Lee and his generals and correspondence regarding World War I "relics" donated to the Cabildo by the Republic of France.
• Dillard University's controversial purchase of property from Rose Hill, Inc. in 1930.
• Long/Leche gubernatorial ticket, political pamphlets by Huey and Earl Long, and a list of responses from New Orleans business owners asked to advertise in a 1943 Choctaw Club publication commemorating Mayor Maestri.
• Several letters by early feminist leader Jean M. Gordon.