City Archives & Special Collections
Explore the resources of the Louisiana Division/City Archives & Special Collections which houses information relating to the study of Louisiana and its citizens and to the city of New Orleans and New Orleanians. Other areas of concentration are the Mississippi River, the Gulf of Mexico, and the South.
The Louisiana Division/City Archives & Special Collections is also the official repository for the records of New Orleans municipal government (1769-present), and holds on deposit the pre-1927 records of the civil courts and the pre-1932 records of the criminal courts of Orleans Parish.