Welsh & Green, Inc (Chicago). Orleans Levee District, Orleans Parish, Louisiana. No publisher, no place of printing, April 1935. 11.5x8", 31 leaves, plus (20) leaves, including 5 folding plates of tables and one map. This is a offset type-printed document, presumably done so in very small numbers, for a presentation made by the firm of Welsh & Green before the Orleans Levee District Board, recommending ways of financing the various improvements to the levees and the airport.
This report is bound in a stiff manila folder with brass punches and has a hand-made typed label pasted onto the front cover. The cover has some bumps and tears along the edges but is in generally Very Good condition; the text is Fine. Provenance: the Library of Congress, with their surplus/duplicate stamp on the rear page. $300
"Welsh & Green was retained by Newman, Harris & Co., of New Orleans, to investigate the financial conditions of the district, and to devise ways and means for remedying the (financial) situation." In effect it seems as though this presentation looked at different ways to legislate and issue bonds to fund a 7 million dollar public debt for the work.
The report was issued in April 1935, just a few months ahead of the "other" storm of the century, the Labor Day Storm of 1935. NOT LOCATED in the OCLC/WorldCat. I can't locate this anywhere, so far, except for the Catalog of Copyright Entries for 1935. (I did find something that looked similar to this report by Welsh & Green on the financial status of Chicago, 1934.)
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