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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
City Planning Commission records, 1923-2012
Series
Scope and Contents
This series contains the builk of the CPC collection, including most of the more recent files created by the City Planning Commission after its merger with the Board of Zoning Adjustments. Meeting minutes, zoning dockets, and ordinances and amendments were produced by the CPC office for the City Council and the public. Subject files and office records were used for internal studies related to zoning and zoning ordinances.
Dates:
1923-2012
Found in:
City Archives
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City Planning Commission records
Councilmember James Fitzmorris At-Large Records
Collection
Identifier: CA-AB-Fitzmorris-At-Large
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 18 boxes of files from Fitzmorris's tenure as At-Large Councilmember. Major areas of focus are Leases on City owned property, the Sewerage and Water Board, and extensive recordkeeping of his appointments. This collection also includes a small amout of Fitzmorris' personal papers.
Dates:
1962-1966
Found in:
City Archives
First term, 1904-1920
Series
Scope and Contents
Relatively few records have survived from the 16 years of Behrman's first tenure; those extant consist mainly of in-coming correspondence from city, parish, or state agencies, neighborhood civic groups, public officials, and private citizens. Among the agencies represented most fully are the City Engineer and the Public Belt Railroad Commission. Included in the file for the New Orleans Board of Health is material concerning the 1905 yellow fever epidemic (the last major epidemic to occur in...
Dates:
1904-1920
Found in:
City Archives
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Mayor Martin Behrman records
Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley records
Collection
Identifier: CA-AA-Walmsley
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...
Dates:
1929-1936
Found in:
City Archives
Office of Planning and Development
Series
Scope and Contents
Except for an incomplete series of general subject files, the records did not come to the Archives in any usable original order. Following appraisal and a preliminary folder inventory, the records were arranged and reinventoried by Clem Unangst, a 1989 intern from the University of New Orleans History Department's archives management program. He divided the files into series and subseries based on the Planning and Development activities documented in the records.Since Mr....
Dates:
1977-1986
Found in:
City Archives
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Mayor Ernest N. Morial records
Subject Files, First Term, 1962-1966
Series
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The DiRosa records contain subject files from the councilperson's two terms in office. Many of the subject files deal with civic matters, social services, and local organizations. Of particular note are the liquor license revocations that were part of a morality enforcement against gambling, sex work, and same-sex bars. Many of the organizations present in the collection are local social service organizations or political organizations, including anti-community organizations from the...
Dates:
1962-1966