Vieux Carré Courier COLLECTION

 

 

(Mss 57)

 

 

Inventory

 

 

Earl K. Long Library

University of New Orleans

 

March 2000

 

 

Contents

 

 

Summary

 

Historical Note

 

Series, Subseries, and Descriptions

 

Container List

 

Index Terms

 

Procedures for Requesting Special Collections Materials

 

 

 

Summary

 

 

Size:                          60 linear feet

 

Geographic

locations:                 New Orleans, La., especially the Vieux Carré (French Quarter)

 

Inclusive dates:      1938-1978

 

Bulk dates:              1960-1978

 

Summary:                Records of the Vieux Carré Courier, Inc., consisting of photographs; advertising, business, circulation, and research records; correspondence; publications; manuscripts; layouts and art work; and miscellany.  Also includes correspondence and research records of Bill Rushton, an editor and reporter on the Courier.

 

Related

collections:              Don Lee Keith Collection of New Orleans Photographs (Mss 302)

 

Source:                     Gift, 1975, 1978

 

Access:                     No restrictions

 

Copyright:                Physical rights are retained by the Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans.

 

Citation:                    Vieux Carré Courier Collection, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans

 

 

 

Historical Note

 

 

            The Vieux Carré Courier began as a neighborhood newspaper for French Quarter residents in 1961 but soon gained a larger audience throughout the Greater New Orleans area with its investigative reporting.  The Courier served as a springboard for the journalistic careers of several writers, among them Bill Rushton whose stories on architecture and the environment generated local interest.  The Courier always experienced financial problems.  After one of its monetary crises, Philip Carter bought the newspaper in 1973, and during his tenure as publisher the Courier achieved its greatest journalistic successes.  It ceased publication in 1978.

 

            Processing note:  In most instances, the file titles given by the Vieux Carré Courier were retained.  When no titles existed, however, they were assigned based upon the contents of the file folders.

 

 

 

List of Series and Subseries

 

 

Series I.    Address books.

 

Series II.        Advertising records.

 

            Subseries II.1           Account books.  List of advertisers.

 

            Subseries II.2           Account books.  Lists of advertisers and amounts.

 

            Subseries II.3           Agency Insertion orders.

 

            Subseries II.4           Classified accounts.

 

            Subseries II.5           Classified run sheets.

 

            Subseries II.6           Commissions Ledger.

 

            Subseries II.7           Contracts.

 

            Subseries II.8           Correspondence.

 

            Subseries II.9           Credit applications.

 

            Subseries II.10        Dun and Bradstreet.

 

            Subseries II.11        Files arranged alphabetically by advertiser or topic.

 

            Subseries II.12        Files entitled "Active by Advertiser."

 

            Subseries II.13        Files arranged alphabetically by advertisers.

 

            Subseries II.14        Insertion orders.

 

            Subseries II.15        Insertion orders, run sheets, invoices.

 

            Subseries II.16        Invoices.

 

            Subseries II.17        Ledger.

 

            Subseries II.18        List of advertisers and addresses.

 

            Subseries II.19        List of advertising agencies.

 

            Subseries II.20        Lists of advertising agencies & advertisers.

 

            Subseries II.21        Past due accounts file.

 

            Subseries II.22        Radio Corporation of America files.

 

            Subseries II.23        Schedules.

 

            Subseries II.24        Statements.

 

            Subseries II.25        Statements and invoice flimsies.

 

            Subseries II.26        Statements.  (Card file in alphabetical order.)

 

            Subseries II.27        Statements of Past Due Accounts.

 

Series III.       Financial records.

 

            Subseries III.1          Account books.

 

            Subseries III.2          Bank statements, cancelled checks, deposit slips.

 

            Subseries III.3          Check stubs.

 

            Subseries III.4          Deposit slips.

 

            Subseries III.5          Additional checks and statements from Philip Carter account ...

 

            Subseries III.6          Bills.

 

            Subseries III.7          Cask book.

 

            Subseries III.8          Daily Reminder.

 

            Subseries III.9          Diary.

 

            Subseries III.10       General Journal.

 

            Subseries III.11       Ledgers.

 

Series IV.      General business records.

 

            Subseries IV.1         Files arranged alphabetically by topic.

 

            Subseries IV.2         Minute book.

 

            Subseries IV.3         Miscellany.

 

            Subseries IV.4         Payroll books.

 

            Subseries IV.5         Record of employees' hours worked.

 

Series V.       Circulation records.

 

            Subseries V.1          Demographic study and readership evaluation study.

 

            Subseries V.2          Distribution records.

 

            Subseries V.3          Master circulation registers.

 

            Subseries V.4          Materials relating to theft from newspaper boxes.

 

            Subseries V.5          Records of papers placed [in vending machines], sold, & returned.

 

            Subseries V.6          Subscriptions.

 

Series VI.       Clippings.

 

Series VII.     Correspondence.

 

Series VIII.    Layouts and art work.

 

Series IX.      Los Angeles Times/Washington Post News Service.

 

            Subseries IX.1         Photographs and biographies of by-liners.

 

            Subseries IX.2         Photographs illustrating stories.

 

X.                    Manuscripts.

 

XI.                   Miscellany.

 

XII.                  Notes and notebooks.

 

XIII.                 Photographs.

 

            Subseries XIII.1       Albums.

 

            Subseries XIII.2       Alphabetical by titles of file folders.

 

            Subseries XIII.3       Alphabetical.  (Originally not in titled file folders.)

 

            Subseries XIII.4       Miscellaneous.

 

            Subseries XIII.5       Prints and negatives.

 

            Subseries XIII.6       Topical.

 

Series XIV.    Press releases.

 

Series XV.     Publications.

 

            Subseries XV.1       Gris Gris.

 

            Subseries XV.2       Conservative publications received from Matt Miller.

 

            Subseries XV.3       Miscellaneous publications.

 

            Subseries XV.4       Port of New Orleans.

 

Series XVI.    Research files.

 

            Subseries XVI.1      Topical files.

 

            Subseries XVI.2      Files created primarily by Bill Rushton.

 

Series XVII.   Subject index of stories appearing in Courier.

 

Series XVIII.  Tapes.

 

 

 

Container List

 

 

Series I.  Address books.

 

57-1                n.d.

 

57-2                n.d.

 

 

Series II.  Advertising records.

 

                        Subseries II.1.  Account books.  2 vols.  List of advertisers arranged by debits and credits.

 

57-4                            A - L.  n.d., November 21, 1973 - April 24, 1975.

 

57-5                            M - Z.  n.d., June 1972 - March 1975.

 

                        Subseries II.2.  Account books.  3 vols.  Lists of advertisers and amounts.

 

57-53                          n.d., 1974 - 1975.

 

57-54                          n.d., April 1975 - February 1976.

 

57-55                          n.d., July 1976 - May 1978.

 

                        Subseries II.3.  Agency Insertion Orders.  (Authorization to advertise placed by agencies for individuals.)

 

57-6                            Agency insertion orders.  June 9, 1975 - March 7, 1978.

 

57-7                            Expired agency insertion orders.  May 10, 1974 - April 14, 1978.

 

                        Subseries II.4.  Classified accounts.

 

57-8                            n.d., January 2, 1977 - June 9, 1977.

 

                        Subseries II.5.  Classified run sheets.  (Record of each issue's advertising.)

 

57-9                            n.d., April 1, 1976 - November 18, 1976.

 

                        Subseries II.6.  Commissions Ledger.

 

57-10                          1 vol.  1974 - 1975.

 

                        Subseries II.7.  Contracts.

 

57-11                          Contracts.  October 12, 1972 - June 23, 1974.

 

                                    Expired Contracts.

 

57-12                                      A - R.  n.d., June 26, 1974 - September 1, 1977.

 

57-193                                    S - Z.  n.d., June 13, 1973 - January 9, 1976.

 

                        Subseries II.8.  Correspondence.

 

57-13                          January 1975 - October 6, 1975.

 

                        Subseries II.9.  Credit applications.

 

57-14                          n.d., October 17, 1974 - February 16, 1977.

 

                        Subseries II.10.  Dun and Bradstreet file.

 

57-15                          n.d., October 16, 1974 - December 31, 1975.

 

                        Subseries II.11.  Files arranged alphabetically by advertiser or topic.

 

57-16                          Consists primarily of balance sheets and statements.  n.d., September 27, 1973 - October 5, 1976.

 

57-17 -

57-20                          Consists primarily of sample layouts.  n.d.  (See also Layouts and art work, 57-131, 57-132, 57-136, 57-160.)

 

                        Subseries II.12.  Files entitled "Active by Advertiser."

 

                                    Consists primarily of sample layouts.

 

57-21                          A - M.  n.d., July 3, 1972 - March 23, 1977.

 

57-22                          N - S.  n.d., January 14, 1976 - February 24, 1977.

 

57-23                          T - Y.  n.d., August 23, 1972 - March 20, 1973.

 

57-24              Subseries II.13.  Folders arranged alphabetically by advertisers.  n.d.

 

                        Subseries II.14.  Insertion orders.  (Authorizations to advertise placed by individual advertisers.)

 

57-25                          n.d., January 27, 1974 - July 1975.

 

57-26                          August 1975 - July 29, 1977.

 

57-39                          n.d., January 14, 1975 - June 2, 1977.

 

                        Subseries II.15.  Insertion orders, run sheets, invoices.

 

57-27                          n.d., December 1974 - October 1975.

 

57-28                          January 1976 - May 1976.

 

57-29                          June 1976 -  December 1976.

 

57-30                          January 1977 - August 1977.

 

57-31                          September 1977 - March 1978.

 

57-32                          April 1978., May 1978, October 1978.

 

                        Subseries II.16.  Invoices.

 

57-33                          n.d., October 17, 1974 - May 18, 1978.

 

                        Subseries II.17.  Ledger.

 

57-34                          n.d., January 5, 1962 - April 6, 1972.

 

                        Subseries II.18.  List of advertisers and addresses.

 

57-35                          n.d., January 8, 1975 - February 12, 1976.

 

57-36              Subseries II.19.  List of advertising agencies.

 

                                    n.d.

 

                        Subseries II.20.  Lists of agencies and advertisers.

 

57-37                          n.d.

 

57-38                          n.d., May 3, 1972 - November 13, 1977.  (Also includes some subscriber cards.)

 

                        Subseries II.21.  Miscellaneous.

 

57-40                          n.d., May 11, 1973 - April 24, 1975.

 

                        Subseries II.22.  Past due accounts file.  (Arranged alphabetically by account.)

 

57-41                          n.d., July 3, 1974 - July 16, 1976.

 

                        Subseries II.23.  Radio Corporation of America file.

 

57-42                          November 28, 1974 - April 15, 1976.

 

                        Subseries II.24.  Schedules.  (Record of each issue's advertising.  See also classified run sheets, 5-9.)