Scope and Contents

This series contains correspondence with various city departments and constituents that include complaints about civic services, government officials, and the police. Official correspondence between the Mayor and the Council are included, as well as reports from City Surveyors. More detailed description of the contents can be found on each item or subseries in this inventory. The letterbook also includes copies of letters from before this period, going back to 1811.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Included in the Subject/Department series are files relating not only to charter agencies (departments, boards, and commissions), but also to subunits of those agencies as well as to task forces and other temporary bodies. Also included are files on parochial offices and on several state agencies having very close association with the city of New Orleans.With regard to the New Orleans Police Dept. Superintendent Selection files, the documents have been arranged in the order that...