City projects
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Chief Administrative Office records
Collection
Identifier: CA-CAO
Scope and Contents
The Chief Administrative Office records contain six series of records from 1950 to 2000, including subject files, capital project files, economic statistics for the city, records of the Federal Program Division, office Scrapbooks, and public relations photographs.
Dates:
1955-2001
Found in:
City Archives
Chief Administrative Officer Cedric S. Grant
Collection
Identifier: CA-CAO-Grant
Scope and Contents
The records are primarily subject/correspondence files. While most of the folders are labeled "correspondence," also included are reports, memos, financial or legal documents, and minutes of committees, boards or task forces on which Grant sat (these are fragmentary).
Dates:
1999-2001; Majority of material found within 2000-2001
Found in:
City Archives
City Council District D Records
Collection
Identifier: CA-AB-District D
Scope and Contents
The bulk of these records are from Marlin Gusman's term in office (2000-2005), pictured left. Also included are records from the terms of Roy E. Glapion, Jr. (1994-1999), pictured below, H. Kenneth Johnston (2000), and David Payton (2005). Materials are arranged in the following series:
Budget Committee Records
General Complaints
Streets Complaints
Governmental Affairs Committee Records
Subject Files
Board of Commissioners of the Orleans...
Dates:
1994-2005; Majority of material found within 2000-2005
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
Community Improvement Agency records
Collection
Identifier: CA-AQG
Scope and Contents
This collection contains planning and project records, reports, meeting minutes, program records, and office files.
Dates:
1969-1976
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
Division of Intergovernmental Relations
Collection
Identifier: CA-AA-Intergov
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence, reports, copies of council resolutions and other city documents, information sheets, resumes, and inter office memos.
Dates:
1985-1997
Found in:
City Archives
French Market Corporation records
Collection
Identifier: CA-KTA
Scope and Contents
The records of the French Market Corporation consist of the following:
Subject files
Correspondence, ordinances, reports, and financial records (including records of Farmers' Market receipts, 1938-1969; cash receipts and disbursements, 1943-1968; and payrolls, 1936-1970). Divided into separate series based on accession date. Arranged alphabetically by folder title. Minutes of the Board of Directors
Official minutes, many signed by the individual directors....
Dates:
1936-1984
Found in:
City Archives
Mayor Andrew McShane records
Collection
Identifier: CA-AA-McShane
Scope and Contents
The McShane papers are primarily correspondence, with a small amount of additional miscellaneous materials, proclamations, speeches, and a report from the Orleans Parish Demonstration Agent. Some of the major subjects represented in the McShane papers are: early plans for an auditorium in the city; an American Legion convention; opposition to local activities in connection with the National Beauty Pagaent in Atlantic City, NJ; the extension of Dauphine Street through the Jackson Barracks...
Dates:
1920-1925
Found in:
City Archives
Mayor deLesseps S. Morrison records
Collection
Identifier: CA-AA-Morrison
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 ...
Dates:
1946-1961; Majority of material found within 1956-1961
Found in:
City Archives
Mayor Sidney J. Barthelemy records
Collection
Identifier: CA-AA-Barthelemy
Scope and Contents
Under the Barthelemy administration, the Office of the Mayor was divided into three sub-offices (variously called divisions or departments) in addition to the Mayor's Executive Office, each headed by an Executive Assistant to the Mayor: the Office of Economic Development (known for a time as the Office of Urban Development), the Office of Human Resources (or Human Resources Administration), and the Office of Intergovernmental Relations. Records transferred to the City Archives at the end of...
Dates:
1986-1994
Found in:
City Archives
Office of the Mayor records
Collection
Identifier: CA-AA
Scope and Contents
The Office of the Mayor's records contains administrative records from throughout the existence of the office. This includes petitions, licenses, project records, city property files, and correspondence with constituents, politicians, governing bodies, city officials, and city departments, among other administrative records. The responsibilities of the Mayor have changed throughout the history of the city, so the Office of the Mayor records have been subdivided by historical...
Dates:
1805-1996; Majority of material found within 1953 - 1999
Found in:
City Archives
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
Records Relating to Community Service Programs
File
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
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