Mayor deLesseps S. Morrison records
Scope and Contents
The records, for the most part, represent subject/correspondence files from the second half of the Morrison administration. A small series of miscellaneous subject files covers his entire term of office, and a smaller series comprises the records of Morrison's Public Relations Office for 1960 only. Reading files from the first half of Morrison's administration were retained, as were press releases.
The records of the first half of the Morrison administration are housed at Tulane University Special Collections.
Dates
- Creation: 1946-1961
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1956-1961
Creator
- Morrison, deLesseps S. (deLesseps Story), 1912-1964 (Person)
- Office of the Mayor (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Available to registered researchers by appointment.
Requesting Materials
Conditions Governing Use
Reproduction or use of materials is prohibited without the permission of the City Archives & Special Collections. Please review the Archives' Permission to Publish note.
Biographical / Historical
deLesseps S. "Chep" Morrison served as Mayor of New Orleans from 1946 to 1961, when he resigned to accept his appointment as U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States.
Extent
123 Linear Feet (246 document boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The records are arranged chronologically and alphabetically by the name of the correspondent or subject matter of the contents in each folder. Press releases and reading files are arranged chronologically.
Individual series are as follows:
- Miscellaneous Subject Files, 1946-1961
- Subject Files, 1956-1961
- Public Relations Office Subject Files, 1960.
- Reading Files, 1946-1951
- Press Releases, 1946-1951
Subject
- Xavier University of Louisiana (Organization)
- United States. Civil Defense (Organization)
- Board of City Trusts (Organization)
- Bureau of Governmental Research (New Orleans, La.) (Organization)
- Delgado Community College (1980) (Organization)
- Metropolitan Crime Commission of New Orleans, Inc. (Organization)
- New Orleans Aviation Board (Organization)
- New Orleans Health Department (Organization)
- Orleans Parish School Board (Organization)
Topical
- Aviation
- City Planning -- Louisiana -- New Orleans Metropolitan Area
- City Projects
- Disaster Recovery
- Economic development
- Gambling
- Harbors
- Hurricanes
- Immigration
- International economic relations
- People with disabilities -- services for
- Pest control
- Public Relations
- Public Transportation
- Race Relations
- Refugees
- School integration -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
- Strikes and Lockouts
- Title
- Mayo deLesseps S. Morrison records finding aid
- Author
- Entered into ArchivesSpace by AM.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the City Archives Repository
City Archives & Special Collections
219 Loyola Avenue
New Orleans LA 70112
504-596-2610
archivist@nolalibrary.org