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City Charters

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Bureau of Governmental Research records relating to the City of New Orleans home rule charter process

 Collection
Identifier: SC-260-MS
Scope and Contents

Memos and correspondence, reports and subject files, and other documents related to the Bureau's research into the city charter process.

Dates: circa 1949-1952

Charter Committee

 Collection
Identifier: CA-ZA
Scope and Contents

The records are arranged into six subseries, as kept by the Committee itself:

  • Correspondence
  • Jobs
  • Subject Files
  • Reports/ Samples from Various Cities
  • Files for Various Section of the Charter
  • Corrected Proofs
  • Secretray's Records
  • Charts

Dates: 1950-1952
Found in: City Archives

Commissioner Lionel G. Ott Records

 Collection
Identifier: CA-AB-Ott
Scope and Contents

Corresspondence and subject files from the office of Lionel Ott, Commissioner of Finance.

Dates: 1946-1964
Found in: City Archives

Mayor Martin Behrman records

 Collection
Identifier: CA-AA-Behrman
Scope and Contents As in all of the pre-1936 Mayor's papers, the Behrman papers have been reconstructed from fragments previously unprocessed or dispersed in subject files kept in the Official Vertical File. The records are arranged alphabetically by name of corporate or individual correspondent. Correspondence marked with clear filing notes is filed according to the subject designated in the note and arranged chronologically therein. Relatively few records have survived from the 16 years of...
Dates: 1904-1929
Found in: City Archives