Public works
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
City Archives Building Plan collection
Collection
Identifier: CA-Building Plans
Scope and Contents
Click the image to the right to search for building plans. The index lists, by street address, the collection of building plans in the City Archives at the New Orleans Public Library. Most of these plans were transferred to the Archives by the Department of Safety and Permits, but additional plans have come into the Archives from the Vieux Carre Commission, other municipal agencies, Civil Court suit records, and other miscellaneous sources.There was no legal requirement that...
Dates:
1881-2010
Found in:
City Archives
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
Councilmember Kristen Gisleson Palmer District C Records
Collection
Identifier: CA-AB-Palmer
Scope and Contents
The records in the collection span the years 2010-2014 and contain
policy-related archives
transportation concerns of all types
daily calendars
correspondenc
talking points
research and studies for the 2014 Sound Ordinance
There are 12 total boxes of project and policy research, particularly related to transportation, parks, and District C quality of life. This includes reports on development projects in New Orleans,...
Dates:
2010-2014
Found in:
City Archives
Councilmember Troy Carter District C Records
Collection
Identifier: CA-AB-Carter
Scope and Contents
The records are subject/correspondence files. A large portion of the files are those kept by Councilman Carter's Legislative Aides, Barbara Waiters and Calvin Jackson, and his Executive Assistant, Eric Granderson, and for the most part, reflect the day-to-day business handled in the District C office. The files also reflect the Councilman's chairmanship on the Council's Special Projects Committee and membership on the Council's Budget and Utility and Cable and Telecommunications...
Dates:
1994-2002
Found in:
City Archives
Department of Public Property records
Collection
Identifier: CA-KD
Scope and Contents
The surviving records of the Commissioner's Office in the Department of Public Property are limited to a single register book and a series of correspondence/subject files. Records of the Division of Public Buildings, the Division of Public Works, and the City Engineer's Office are described separately.The register records documents received by the Commission and referred to the Commissioner of Public Property for action. Documents are listed by date of receipt and numerically under...
Dates:
1912-1973
Found in:
City Archives
Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Cedric S. Grant
Collection
Identifier: CA-CAO-Grant.Deputy
Scope and Contents
The records reflect Grant's tenure as Deputy Chief Administrative Officer. As primary assistant to the CAO, Grant was responsible for capital development, emergency preparedness and public works. The records are primarily subject/correspondence files. While most of the folders are labeled "correspondence," also included are reports, memos, financial or legal documents, minutes of committees, boards or task forces on which Grant sat (these are fragmentary), etc. Correspondence or memos to CAO...
Dates:
1994-2001
Found in:
City Archives
First Municipality's Surveyor's Office, 1837-1852
Series
Scope and Contents
The records are manuscript volumes in French. They are arranged in series as described below.
Daybooks of Public Works Performed
Recapitualtions of Employment on the Public Works
Jurnal of Expenditures for Public Works
Ledger of Expenditures for Public Works
The records could be useful in a study of the treatment accorded to white and black workers in an antebellum urban setting. Were there differences in the work projects assigned to...
Dates:
1837-1852
Found in:
City Archives
/
First Municipality records
Piazza d'Italia Project records, 1976-1982
Series
Scope and Contents
These records were received in April, 1991, from staff members of the Office of Business and Industrial Development. They all deal in some way with the Piazza d'Italia project and include information from its early stages of development through its construction and dedication. As such the records represent the work of staff members in both the Moon Landrieu and Ernest N. Morial administrations. They appear to have been created and/or collected by staff members in the Mayor's Office of Urban...
Dates:
1976-1982
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
Second Municipality Surveyor's Office, 1836-1852
Series
Scope and Contents
The records of the Second Municipality's Surveyor's Office include:
Reports of work performed by laborers
Ordinances relative to the Surveyor's Office
Reimbursements for sidewalk paving
Measurements of Buildings and Walls
Curb and Gutter stones sold by the Municipality
Payroll of carts and laborers
Letter books
Memos for surveyor and contractor
Bills for street and sidewalk paving
Charges made for...
Dates:
1836-1852
Found in:
City Archives
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Second Municipality records
Special Assistant to the Mayor
Sub-Series
Scope and Contents
Records related to special projects by the Morial administration and relevant issues that required the specific attention of the special assistant.
Dates:
1977-1986
Surveyor's Office records
Collection
Identifier: CA-KG
Scope and Contents
This description includes the pre-1862 records only; descriptions of the remaining records are included in a separate inventory. That inventory, moreover, is prefaced by a good descriptive overview of the nature of the Surveyor's duties and responsibilities during the nineteenth century.Outgoing Correspondence, 1853-1863 (KG510, 2 v.) -- Copies of letters dealing with such matters as drainage; the condition of buildings, machinery, and canals; city property; levee breaks;...
Dates:
1833-1890
Found in:
City Archives
Walter C. Carey papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-270-MS
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, speeches, manuscripts of technical papers, maps, plans, charts, photographs, books, pamphlets, and journals relating to marine growth, flood control (particularly to the development and installation of revetments on the Misissippi River), and other civil engineering topics and projects. Among the photographs are visual records of flood projects in progress and shots taken on a trip to the Netherlands in 1937. Many of the printed items (mostly produced by the Mississippi River...
Dates:
1907-1979; Majority of material found within 1920-1963
Found in:
Special Collections