Marta B. Lamar Collection, Addendum 1

MARTA B. LAMAR COLLECTION

ADDENDUM 1

(Mss 69)

Inventory

Earl K. Long Library

University of New Orleans

May 2006

Contents

Summary

Container List

Index Terms

Procedures for Requesting Special Collections Materials

Summary

Size: ½ linear foot

Geographic

locations: New Orleans, Louisiana

Inclusive dates: 1965-1976

Summary: Papers accumulated by Mrs. Lamar, a New Orleans preservationist; primarily concerned with the proposed Uptown Mississippi River Bridge but including material on other controversies. Includes correspondence, clippings, scrapbooks, publications, maps, petitions, studies, and miscellanea.

Source: Gift, May 1976

Access: No restrictions

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

Citation: Marta B. Lamar Collection, Addendum 1, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans

Container List

69-14 Cartoon: "Truckin' Down The Avenue" by Eldon Pletcher (Times-Picayune, February 6, 1976). Original pen and ink drawing with presentation inscription from Pletcher to Mrs. LaMarch

69-1 Clippings (loose) n.d.; December 21, 1966 - January 23, 1972, April 1976. See also Scrapbooks...(69-12, 69-13).

69-2 Correspondence (incoming/outgoing), n.d.; May 22, 1969 - May 15, 1971.

69-3 Legal opinion by Wood, King and Dawson, New York, N.Y., concerning "The Mississippi River Bridge Authority, Bridge Revenue Bonds, $65,000,000." A photo-offset reproduction (notarized February 19, 1966) of the original opinion dated November 8, 1954.

Maps (some with annotations)

69-7 R. Conradt. New Orleans and contiguous areas with proposed routs for new bridges and roadways. n.p., January 1, 1970 (4 items).

69-8 deLaureal Engineers, Inc. and Howard, Needles, Tamen and Bergendoff. Preliminary Plan-Alt. Layout No. 4; Uptown Mississippi River Bridge at Riverfront Expressway. [New Orleans], 1967.

69-9 New Orleans and contiguous areas with delineation of large land holdings on West Bank. n.p., n.d.

69-10 New Orleans and contiguous areas. Aerial photograph with proposed routes for new bridges and roadways. n.p., n.d.

69-11 Wilbur Smith and Associates. New Orleans and contiguous areas with "travel desires" and "trip-end termini" descriptions for Greater New Orleans Bridge, Huey P. Long Bridge, and Uptown Bridge under "1965-existing conditions" and "1965-assuming toll bridge program." n.p., ca. 1965.

69-4 Miscellany (transcripts of New Orleans City Council resolutions; studies and reports on transportation and bridges sites; statements, press releases and memoranda by individuals and organizations; political campaign literature; broadsides). n.d.; 1967-1974.

69-5 Petition (concerned with zoning; no signatures), n.d.

69-14 Poster (for meeting concerning a truck route), December 4, 1975.

69-6 Publications (some with marginalia and inclusions).

Awake! vol. XLIX, no. 22 (November 22, 1968).

Committee for Economic Development. Research and Policy Committee. Reshaping Government in Metropolitan Areas [New York, 1970].

New Orleans. City Planning Commission. The Old Man; Obstacle? Opportunity; A Status Report of the ... Bridge Study 1970; Direction Before 2000 [New Orleans, 1970].

New Orleans News. Vol. 1, No. 4 (February 24 - March 9, 1970).

New Orleans States-Item. Reprint of editorial "Bridge Proposal; Unworkable Now OK?" (June 1970).

The Planning Group, Inc. Comprehensive River Area Study; Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations. "Prepared for the Office of State Planning, State of Louisiana...May 1972" [New Orleans, 1972].

The Progressive. Reprint of "Silent Death" by Seymour Hersh (May 1969).

Southern Journal. Vol. 2, No. 1 (Winter 1972).

Vieux Carré Courier. Vol. 6, No. 43 (December 19, 1969).

Scrapbooks (primarily clippings but including related miscellany).

69-12 March 1 - April 30, 1970.

69-13 ca. June, July, 1972.

Index Terms

Bridges—Louisiana—New Orleans

Highway planning—Louisiana—New Orleans

Lamar, Marta B.

Urban planning—Louisiana—New Orleans