Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Contains records related to public utilities in the city of New Orleans, including some records by the New Orleans Public Service Inc. (NOPSI), the Taxicab Bureau, Office of Telecommunications, and administrators. The records include subject files, project files, plans, correspondence between various departments, and volumes of bills, ledgers, and complaints.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Correspondence, subject files, application records, hearing records, records relating to taxi companies, records of individual taxicab owners and drivers, and records of sightseeing guides. The records document the administration of the Bureau, the conduct of the local taxi business, and the demographics of participants in the industry. Because of the importance of tourism to the New Orleans economy it is anticipated that the Taxicab Bureau records will be useful to researchers interested in...