Bureau of Franchises correspondence, memoranda, notes, and ephemera for 1895 to 1919


Description

This accession consists of correspondence, memoranda, and notes. These may be original typescripts, carbon copies, mimeograph copies, or manuscripts. These communications are supplemented by minutes, City Record clippings, franchise applications, investigations, contracts, reports from the Public Service Commission, Department of Finance and Office of the Commissioners of Accounts, as well as Municipal Civil Service Directives, petitions with blueprints, lawsuits and educational publications, such as the 1910 pamphlet, "The Business of New York City: Where the City Gets Its Money and How It Spends It." Materials are arranged chronologically.


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