MSS 184 - Bureau of Governmental Research Collection

Series, Subseries, and Descriptions

 

 

Series I.         Clippings, ca. 1962-1985

 

Series II.        Correspondence, n.d. and 1929-1977

 

            Subseries II.1:  General Correspondence

 

            Subseries II.2:  Form letters, 1939-1954

 

            Subseries II.3:  Notices to Board of Directors and Executive Committee

 

            Subseries II.4:  New Member Solicitation Letters

 

            Subseries II.5:  Vieux Carre Study Correspondence

 

Series III.       Financial Records, 1938-1985

 

            Subseries III.1: Annual audit reports, 1938-1969

 

            Subseries III.2: Banking records, 1961-1985

                        Includes statements, cancelled and voided checks, check carbons, deposit slips.

 

            Subseries III.3: Miscellaneous financial records, 1942-1970

 

Series IV.      Founding and early organizational records, n.d. and 1931-1933

 

Series V.       Membership Records, n.d. and 1930-1986

 

            Subseries V.1: Files on individual and corporate memberships, 1933-1986

                        Mainly concerns dues payments; includes related correspondence.

 

            Subseries V.2: Inactive members in armed forces

 

            Subseries V.3: File on membership development

 

            Subseries V.4: Membership lists and proposals for membership

 

            Subseries V.5: Membership Solicitations

 

Series VI.      Memoranda and Special Reports, 1946

            Studies prepared by or for the Bureau of Governmental Research but not included in the series entitled "Studies, 1933-1977"; series contains a total of 30 memoranda and four Special Reports.

 

Series VII.     Minutes

            Minutes with attachments, Board of Directors and Executive Committee, 1932-1974.

 

Series VIII.    Miscellany

            Miscellany of memoranda, reports, studies, and pamphlets, n.d. and 1932; 1934; 1936-1940; 1942; 1944; 1946-1963; 1968-1979.

 

Series IX.      Publications, 1933-1950

 

            Subseries IX.1: City Problems

                        Began September 15, 1933, as an untitled monthly bulletin; with issue of June 10, 1935, it retitled What Every Citizen Should Know; with issue of January 20, 1938, it was renamed City Problems.

 

            Subseries IX.2: State Problems

 

            Subseries IX.3: Miscellaneous

 

            Subseries IX.4: Studies, 1933-1977

                        The primary activity of the Bureau of Governmental Research was the preparation of studies (called jobs by the Bureau) on city, parish, and state governmental activities in Louisiana.  The data compiled in the production of these studies, together with its analysis and any resulting reports, was filed in consecutively numbered folders bearing titles descriptive of the studies therein.

 

Series X.       Television file, 1953-1959

            Clippings, correspondence, dictaphone belts, memoranda, and scripts, 1953-1959.  During this period the Bureau of Governmental Research, in cooperation first with WDSU-TV and later WYES-TV, produced a series of television programs entitled "Dateline: New Orleans" and "A City in Action" which examined economic, political, and social issues mainly relevant to the city, the metropolitan area, and the state, but occasionally including topics of national and international import.

 

Series XI.      Topical File, 1918-1982