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Manuscript minute book kept during the Company's organizational period. Included are specifications for construction of the railway, the Company's bylaws, and a list of stockholders.

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Family and railroad-related correspondence, sketches, certificate of admission to the practice of law, Louisiana printed materials, family and vacation photographs.

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The records are four boxes of subject files, arranged alphabetically, regarding the administrative duties and interests of the District E office.

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...

Scope and Contents The records consist primarily of correspondence (arranged alphabetically by correspondent or subject), both incoming and outgoing, with local public officials, citizens, and organizations, as well as with mayors of other American cities and other notables. Among the correspondents are Susan B. Anthony; Senators Donelson Caffery, Murphy J. Foster, and Samuel Douglas McEnery; Congressmen Robert C. Davey and Adolph Meyer; Governor W. W. Heard; Alcee Fortier; and Sophie B. Wright....

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Mostly documents, many preliminary reports/studies, along with several volumes of routine office records. The documents deal with the development of the city plan, land use/zoning, railroads, the port of New Orleans, and recreation. The records are mostly fiscal in nature.

Scope and Contents Includes miscellaneous articles and other items relating to railroads from Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Co. (1880); ticket for second class passage on the Steamer Monroe, issued by the Western and Atlantic Railroad Co.; annual report of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad Co. to the Legislature of the State of Louisiana (January, 1861); receipt for goods transported on the New Orleans, Opelousas, and Great Western Railroad (1857); letterhead envelope...

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Manuscript register of delegates, including the signatures and residences of each.

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The records date mostly from the period of the UPT Committee's control of the terminal building. Included are the official minutes, general ledgers, payroll journals, reports made to the Interstate Commerce Commission, labor agreements, photographs, correspondence/subject files. and various reports and other publications.

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These are photocopies of typewritten letters signed by Edenborn along with some typewritten transcripts of additional letters to and from him. All were written in 1898 and deal with railroad construction, negotiations for purchases of right of way, purchases of steamboats, and the railway and steamboat freight business in general. Also included are copies of patents for various wiremaking machines invented by Edenborn and miscellaneous materials collected by Glen Coleman.