Walking Through New Orleans
Victor H. Schiro,
1904-1992
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Wright State University
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Leon Miller, Tulane University

Victor Hugo Schiro served as Mayor of New Orleans from 1961-1969. When DeLesseps S. Morrison resigned as Mayor in 1961 to become United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States, the City Council elected Schiro, then Councilman-At-Large, as interim mayor. The people of New Orleans subsequently elected him to two full terms.

Exhibit Contents

 

Victor Hugo Schiro in 1939
as a twenty-five-year-old
insurance salesman.

The Tulane Manuscripts Department is honored to preserve the papers of Victor H. Schiro (Manuscripts Collection 1001). The Schiro papers span the period from 1917 through 1995 and encompass roughly forty linear feet of original documents, including correspondence, speeches, political papers, pamphlets, appointment books, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia. The papers are open to researchers and a finding aid to the collection is available in the Special Collections Reading Room on the second floor of Jones Hall.

The Schiro papers preserved by Tulane are primarily his personal papers. The official records of the Schiro administration are preserved by the New Orleans City Archives, which is a branch of the New Orleans Public Library.
College graduation photograph of Margaret Mary Gibbs (the future Sunny Schiro). She graduated from Hood College, Baltimore, Maryland, in 1930.

On Valentine's Day, 1932, she sent Schiro a photograph of herself and wrote on its back, "Dear Vicklet, thought you'd like this real Valentine better than any I could buy."

 

Schiro served in the
United States Coast Guard during World War II.
Schiro inscribed the above  photograph "To Henny, Gobs of Good Wishes, Vic." Henny was Henrietta Gibbs, Schiro's mother-in-law.

 

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