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CA-KD. Public Works and Public Property

 Record Group
Identifier: CA-KD
Records created by departments responsible for designing and building streets, bridges, and other infrastructure, including buildings and railroads. Many of these records will complement other records about the city's infrastructure such as Utilities or Planning and Zoning.

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

City Engineer records

 Collection
Identifier: CA-KJ
Scope and Contents The records contain a wealth of information about buildings, streets, bridges, and other elements of the physical state of New Orleans between 1890 and 1947 specifically. Much of this information, though, will be difficult to access for a number of reasons. The "good stuff" is often buried amidst a mass of routine reports, communications, forms, and other documents. Available indexing is not uniformly keyed to any surviving filing locations or other designations....
Dates: 1890-1980s
Found in: City Archives

City Park Improvement Association records

 Collection
Identifier: CA-LPB
Scope and Contents

This collection contains records relating to the running of City Park, New Orleans by the City Park Improvement Association. The most prolific items are monthly event calendars produced by the Park from 1994-1993. Although the calendars are identified as monthly, not every month is available in that time span. There are also financial reports from 1900-1922, as well as invitations from 1937, 1968, 1972, and 1982-1984.

Dates: 1852-2003
Found in: City Archives

Public Works records

 Collection
Identifier: CA-L
Scope and Contents

Records from various departments during the city's history responsible for streets, public works, and public improvements. Different departments records are arranged into series.

Dates: 1805-1980 (update when resource complete)
Found in: City Archives

Union Passenger Terminal records

 Collection
Identifier: CA-NU
Scope and Contents

The records date mostly from the period of the UPT Committee's control of the terminal building. Included are the official minutes, general ledgers, payroll journals, reports made to the Interstate Commerce Commission, labor agreements, photographs, correspondence/subject files. and various reports and other publications.

Dates: 1948-1996
Found in: City Archives

Upper Pontalba Building Commission records

 Collection
Identifier: CA-NP
Scope and Contents

This collection contains records related to the takeover and administration of the Pontalba building in Jackson Square, including financial records and agreements.

Dates: 1930-1946
Found in: City Archives