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Contains 13 Results:

Correspondence

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Correspondence, resolutions, petitions, and related documents dealing with the successful effort of the Company to gain approval for the operation of stock pens within the city limits. The process involved the defeat of an ordinance designed explicitly to make such ventures illegal. The petitions may be useful in identifying residents of the Lower Ninth Ward, local butchers, and state-wide livestock interests.

Dates: 1916

Petitions of residents opposed to the stock yards

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Correspondence, resolutions, petitions, and related documents dealing with the successful effort of the Company to gain approval for the operation of stock pens within the city limits. The process involved the defeat of an ordinance designed explicitly to make such ventures illegal. The petitions may be useful in identifying residents of the Lower Ninth Ward, local butchers, and state-wide livestock interests.

Dates: 1916

Petitions of persons "engaged in the retail butcher business" in support of the stock yards

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Correspondence, resolutions, petitions, and related documents dealing with the successful effort of the Company to gain approval for the operation of stock pens within the city limits. The process involved the defeat of an ordinance designed explicitly to make such ventures illegal. The petitions may be useful in identifying residents of the Lower Ninth Ward, local butchers, and state-wide livestock interests.

Dates: 1916

Petitions of persons "identified with the livestock industry" in support of the stock yards

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Correspondence, resolutions, petitions, and related documents dealing with the successful effort of the Company to gain approval for the operation of stock pens within the city limits. The process involved the defeat of an ordinance designed explicitly to make such ventures illegal. The petitions may be useful in identifying residents of the Lower Ninth Ward, local butchers, and state-wide livestock interests.

Dates: 1916

petitions of property owners, residents, and other citizens in support of the stock yards

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Correspondence, resolutions, petitions, and related documents dealing with the successful effort of the Company to gain approval for the operation of stock pens within the city limits. The process involved the defeat of an ordinance designed explicitly to make such ventures illegal. The petitions may be useful in identifying residents of the Lower Ninth Ward, local butchers, and state-wide livestock interests.

Dates: 1916

Petitions in favor of reserving properties at Joseph and South Liberty Streets for playground purposes

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Correspondence and subject files pertaining to:

  • Union Stock Yard development in the Ninth Ward
  • Properties at Joseph and South Liberty to be used for playgrounds
  • Distribution of natural gas
  • the Henry Clay streetcar line
  • Municipal Auditorium site selection

Dates: 1866-2016

Correspondence relating to the privilege to distribute natural gas, 1927-1928

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Correspondence and subject files pertaining to:

  • Union Stock Yard development in the Ninth Ward
  • Properties at Joseph and South Liberty to be used for playgrounds
  • Distribution of natural gas
  • the Henry Clay streetcar line
  • Municipal Auditorium site selection

Dates: 1927-1928

Protests against the abolition of the Henry Clay streetcar line, 1926

 Series — Box: 1, Folder: 8-12
Scope and Contents Mostly petitions signed by "residents of the Henry Clay area and patrons of the Henry Clay line [protesting] against the abolition of the Henry Clay line either by motion of the Council or by allowing the franchise to die." Also included are communications from the Fourteenth Ward Civic League protesting against passage of an ordinance permitting New Orleans Public Service, Inc. to abandon the line and asking that a public hearing be held on the matter. That hearing did take place later in...
Dates: 1926

Letters in support of the Beauregard Square site

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Mostly concerned with the question of locating the structure at Beauregard Square, but also including other documentation relating to the development of the Auditorium project. While the original site for the building was to be Beauregard Square itself, the Council eventually decided to move it back to the two square on the Lake side of the public space.

Dates: 1928

Letters in opposition to the Beauregard Square site, including several in support of locating the Auditorium at Tulane and Carrollton Avenues or on Jefferson Davis Parkway

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Mostly concerned with the question of locating the structure at Beauregard Square, but also including other documentation relating to the development of the Auditorium project. While the original site for the building was to be Beauregard Square itself, the Council eventually decided to move it back to the two square on the Lake side of the public space.

Dates: 1928

Council hearing and other official documents, including reports by the Municipal Auditorium Commission and the Playground Commission as well as two messages from the Mayor to the Council discussing the Auditorium site as well as a site for the new Criminal Court building

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Mostly concerned with the question of locating the structure at Beauregard Square, but also including other documentation relating to the development of the Auditorium project. While the original site for the building was to be Beauregard Square itself, the Council eventually decided to move it back to the two square on the Lake side of the public space.

Dates: 1928

Petitions pledging "to co-operate with any movement by the City Administration towards raising funds by private subscription to replace the playground now situated on Beauregard Square"

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Mostly concerned with the question of locating the structure at Beauregard Square, but also including other documentation relating to the development of the Auditorium project. While the original site for the building was to be Beauregard Square itself, the Council eventually decided to move it back to the two square on the Lake side of the public space.

Dates: 1928

Published Reports

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents Reports include: Report on the Location of the Proposed Municipal Auditorium, New Orleans, La.," by Bartholomew & Associates Report of Sub-Committee on Contents, and Uses of a Municipal Auditorium and Convention Hall," St. Louis, July 18, 1917 Broadside--"Why the Municipal Auditorium Commission selected Beauregard Square;" photographic copy of illustrated plan showing the Auditorium site in relation to Jackson Square/St. Louis...
Dates: 1928