City planning--Louisiana--New Orleans
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
City Engineer records
Collection
Identifier: CA-KJ
Scope and Contents
The records contain a wealth of information about buildings, streets, bridges, and other elements of the physical state of New Orleans between 1890 and 1947 specifically. Much of this information, though, will be difficult to access for a number of reasons.
The "good stuff" is often buried amidst a mass of routine reports, communications, forms, and other documents.
Available indexing is not uniformly keyed to any surviving filing locations or other designations....
Dates:
1890-1980s
Found in:
City Archives
City Planning Commission records
Collection
Identifier: CA-AQ
Scope and Contents
The CPC records contain meeting minutes, correspondence, subject files, photographs, and zoning dockets. Meeting minutes include minutes by the CPC, the Board of Zoning Adjustments, and the Planning Advisory Committee. The Zoning Dockets are individually organized project files for properties, building, and renovations. The dockets can contain various documents including correspondence, building plans, memos, inspection reports, and other materials. Subject files and office records are files...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1923 - 2012
Found in:
City Archives
Councilmember Troy Carter District C Records
Collection
Identifier: CA-AB-Carter
Scope and Contents
The records are subject/correspondence files. A large portion of the files are those kept by Councilman Carter's Legislative Aides, Barbara Waiters and Calvin Jackson, and his Executive Assistant, Eric Granderson, and for the most part, reflect the day-to-day business handled in the District C office. The files also reflect the Councilman's chairmanship on the Council's Special Projects Committee and membership on the Council's Budget and Utility and Cable and Telecommunications...
Dates:
1994-2002
Found in:
City Archives
Mayor Andrew McShane records
Collection
Identifier: CA-AA-McShane
Scope and Contents
The McShane papers are primarily correspondence, with a small amount of additional miscellaneous materials, proclamations, speeches, and a report from the Orleans Parish Demonstration Agent. Some of the major subjects represented in the McShane papers are: early plans for an auditorium in the city; an American Legion convention; opposition to local activities in connection with the National Beauty Pagaent in Atlantic City, NJ; the extension of Dauphine Street through the Jackson Barracks...
Dates:
1920-1925
Found in:
City Archives
Mayor Ernest N. Morial records
Collection
Identifier: CA-AA-Morial.E
Scope and Contents
Ernest Morial mayor's office records begin in 1977, the year before he took office, and run until he left office in 1986. He organized his office into four sub-units: the Executive Office, Intergovernmental Relations, Planning and Development, and Human Resources (in addition, the Mayor was advised by an Executive Counsel and was assisted in operating city government by his Chief Administrative Officer--unfortunately though, no records from either of these aides has yet been accessioned by...
Dates:
1977-1986
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
Mayor Paul Capdevielle records
Collection
Identifier: CA-AA-Capdevielle
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....
Dates:
1900-1904
Found in:
City Archives
Mayor Sidney J. Barthelemy records
Collection
Identifier: CA-AA-Barthelemy
Scope and Contents
Under the Barthelemy administration, the Office of the Mayor was divided into three sub-offices (variously called divisions or departments) in addition to the Mayor's Executive Office, each headed by an Executive Assistant to the Mayor: the Office of Economic Development (known for a time as the Office of Urban Development), the Office of Human Resources (or Human Resources Administration), and the Office of Intergovernmental Relations. Records transferred to the City Archives at the end of...
Dates:
1986-1994
Found in:
City Archives
Mayor Victor H. Schiro records
Collection
Identifier: CA-AA-Schiro
Scope and Contents
The records include correspondence/subject files from Schiro's tenure as Councilman, as well as his terms as Mayor (the 1961 files contain both mayoral and councilmanic papers). Also included is a series of records from the Mayor's Public Relations Office, 1957-1970 (extending slightly into the tenure of Schiro's successor, Moon Landrieu).
Dates:
1950-1970
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
Office of Policy Planning and Analysis central files
Collection
Identifier: CA-AAP
Scope and Contents
The Office began its cental filing system in June 1975. Incoming files, as well as materials already collected, were classified using a two-letter coding system to indicate the category to which the files were assigned. That classification system has been retained in this archival series as indicated in the arrangement section that follows.The Office and its components collected data and information from a wide variety of sources from within city government and from outside...
Dates:
1973-1979
Found in:
City Archives
Office of the Mayor records
Collection
Identifier: CA-AA
Scope and Contents
The Office of the Mayor's records contains administrative records from throughout the existence of the office. This includes petitions, licenses, project records, city property files, and correspondence with constituents, politicians, governing bodies, city officials, and city departments, among other administrative records. The responsibilities of the Mayor have changed throughout the history of the city, so the Office of the Mayor records have been subdivided by historical...
Dates:
1805-1996; Majority of material found within 1953 - 1999
Found in:
City Archives