Scope and Contents Correspondence, reports, specifications, design notes, maps, plans, and other materials relating to the design, construction, and maintenance of bridges in the City of New Orleans. Also included are similar documents relating to the beautification of the Bayou St. John waterway and other "non-bridge" projects such as the Lake Pontchartrain bulkhead and the U.S. Immigration Station wharf.In addition to documenting the operations of the City Engineer's office (and later the...

Scope and Contents A records of contracts granted to run ferries, the rights to wharf privileges on the public levee, accounts of the revoking of these privileges following the Civil War and amounts of compensation, rights to erect buildings on the levee, railroad contracts, and contracts for rebuilding and repairing wharves. The insert includes information on locations and area of wharfage, the length of unbuilt space available for wharves, and the length of existing wharf fronts. The collection gives...

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Papers dealing with ownership of the steamship, "Grover Cleveland". Includes a certificate of inspection and a certificate of ownership.

Scope and Contents The records have been reconstructed from "fragments" dispersed in the City Archives. They consist primarily of incoming correspondence to the mayor, arranged alphabetically by name of corporate or individual correspondent. Correspondence marked with clear filing notes has been filed according to the subject designated in the note and arranged chronologically within the subject category. Among the subjects covered most substantially are the strike by workers constructing the Public Belt (Huey...

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Fifteen invoices from various New Orleans businesses for work and repairs done for the Schooner "Enterprise". Mrs. Ellen Kennedy is identified as the owner of the schooner.

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Log of voyage from New Orleans to Brasos St. Iago, commencing December 23, 1846, William Gardiner, master. The ship reached the Chalmette battleground, where it met with an accident that forced it to return to the city. Most of the record recounts efforts to clear the decks and make the vessel seaworthy. The voyage was not continued.

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Register of vessels arriving in the First Municipality.

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Records include reports of flatboats, and steamboats arriving in the port of the Second Municipality and a register of sea vessels.

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Register of vessels arriving in prot in the Third Municipality.