L. Kemper Williams collection, 1867-1966 (bulk 1955-1965).

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L. Kemper Williams collection, 1867-1966 (bulk 1955-1965).

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Collection consists of printed materials pertaining to New Orleans and Louisiana culture, history, economic activity, and tourism. Included are loose and bound issues of Dixie Magazine, the Sunday magazine supplement to the Times-picayune; tourist pamphlets and brochures for historic sites in New Orleans and southern Louisiana; pamphlets from area businesses; theater and concert programs for local musical and dramatic performances; newsletters from the Vieux Carré Property Owners, Residents, and Associates and other New Orleans civic and neighborhood organizations; programs and newsletters of local Catholic churches; clippings from the Times-picayune concerning school desegregation and civil rights protests in New Orleans in the early 1960s; annual reports and other publications of the New Orleans City Planning Commission, the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board, and the New Orleans Public Schools; issues of PAR legislative bulletin, PAR analysis, and the Jefferson Parish yearly review; and tourist maps of New Orleans, Louisiana, and neighboring states.

circa 1615 items.

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6910378

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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New Orleans (La.). City Planning Commission

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Created as the City Planning and Zoning Commission in 1923, the agency was authorized to conduct planning studies, to divide the City into zones on the basis of land use, and to make recommendations on planning matters to the City Council. In 1926 new legislation authorized it to recommend a zoning ordinance to the Council and gave it enforcement powers for the City's comprehensive plan and subdivision regulations. Originally a 20 member body (and later changed to 15 by the 1926 leg...

Catholic Church

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Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans

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Williams, L. Kemper (Lewis Kemper), 1887-1971

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New Orleans Public Schools

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