New Orleans Passenger lists
Scope and Contents
Manuscript lists of passengers arriving at the port of New Orleans during April and May of 1851. Other copies of most of these lists exist in the passenger list records filmed by the National Archives. Lists for two vessels are not included on those microfilms: Schooner Union, from San Juan de Nicaragua (April 20, 1851) and Bark Cora, from Richmond (May 9, 1851).
Dates
- Creation: 1851
Conditions Governing Access
Available on microfilm to registered researchers by appointment. Original documents are closed for research.
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.
Extent
12 Folders (Available on 1 roll of microfilm)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
These lists may have been deposited in the Mayor's Office in accordance with some unidentified local ordinance. One of them is marked "Mayor's Office."
Call Number
The Genealogical Society of Utah has filmed these passenger lists as part of one roll of 35mm microfilm roll #0906709; filed under call number AA253.
Subject
- Port of New Orleans (Organization)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
City Archives & Special Collections
219 Loyola Avenue
New Orleans LA 70112
504-596-2610
archivist@nolalibrary.org