Publications by various mayoral committees for 1897 to 1958
Description
Accession consists of: 1) Report on the Public Baths and Public Comfort Stations issued in 1897 by the Mayor’s Committee; 2) “How to Meet Hard Times,” by the Mayor’s Committee on Unemployment, published in 1917; 3) Report issued by the Mayor’s Committee on Management Survey in 1951 titled “Classification and Compensation of the Service of the City of New York”; 4) Three reports issued by the Mayor’s Interdepartmental Committee for a Clean City, reports are number 1, 3, and 4 and are titled respectively: “Tenement Test Area Survey,” “City-Wide Littered Lot Clean-up Program,” and “The Big Sweep of 1957,” they were issued in 1955, 1956, and 1957; and 5) Eight reports issued by the Mayor’s Committee for Better Housing) They are titled as follows: “Report of Subcommittee on Problems of Relocation of Persons Displaced by New Housing and Other Public Improvements” (1955), “Report of Sub-Committee on Low Rent Public Housing” (1955), “Report of Sub-Committee on Middle Income Housing With Proper Use of Tax Concessions and State or City Credit” (1955), “Report of Sub-Committee on Middle Income Housing by Private Enterprise without Public Subsidy” (1955), “Report of Sub-Committee on Housing in Relation to the Future of the City and Planning Therefor” (1955), “Report of Sub-Committee on Special Problems, Such as Housing for the Aged & Large Families & Discrimination and Integration” (1955), “Report of Sub-Committee on Old Law Tenements” (1955), “Report of Sub-Committee on Urban Redevelopment, Including Slum Clearance, Neighborhood Conservation, and Rehabilitation” (1955), and “Final Report of the Mayor’s Committee for Better Housing of the City of New York”; 6) Report of Mayor La Guardia’s Committee on Unemployment Relief, 1935; 7) Report of the Mayor’s Committee on Transit Power Plants, 1958 (2 copies); 8) Engineers Report on Highway Traffic Conditions…to Mayor Walker, 1929 (2 copies); 9) Second Report to Mayor O’Dwyer from the Mayor’s Committee on Slum Clearance by Private Capital, issued January 23, 1950; 10) Report of the Mayor’s Committee appointed to Study Labor Relations on the City’s Transit System, April 28, 1943 (2 copies); 11) Parade instructions issued for parade arranged by the Mayor’s Committee on Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of Greater City of New York, 1923; 12) A Report prepared for the Mayor’s Committee on Management Survey titled “The New York Police Survey”; 13) Report of the New York City Mayor's Transit Fact-Finding Board, May 31, 1950 (2 copies); 14) Report of the New York City Mayor’s Transit Fact-Finding Committee, May 17, 1954; 15) Report of the Mayor’s Commission on City and State Relationships in the Financing of Public Education; 16) Directory of Intergroup Relations Agencies in New York City for the Year 1953-1954, issued by Mayor’s Committee on Unity; 17) Report on the Pension Funds of the City of New York, by the Commission on Pensions, Part I only; and 18) Report issued by the Mayor’s Committee on Management Survey titled “Traffic Administration in the New York Police Department, 1952)
Extent
4.25 cubic feet (31 volumes)
Dates
1897-1958
Record Groups
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