Wednesday: New Municipal Archives vault will open at Dallas City Hall

City of Dallas sent this bulletin at 04/13/2015 10:05 AM CDT

For Immediate Release                                                       For more information contact:
April 13, 2015                                                                        John Slate – City Archivist                                                                                              (214) 670-5270

New Municipal Archives vault will open at Dallas City Hall Wednesday

What:  Some of the City’s historical treasures will soon have a new home in a newly constructed vault two floors below City Hall. The new vault will hold some of the city's earliest government documents (1866), to Dallas Police records on Bonnie and Clyde and Lee Harvey Oswald's fingerprints. The new area is part of the Dallas Municipal Archives and Records Center, a division of the City Secretary’s Office.

Among the more notable collections are the Dallas Police Department investigation files on the murders of President John F. Kennedy and DPD Officer JD Tippit; maps, engineering plans, and architectural drawings of old city hall, Fair Park, and the Majestic Theater; records of municipally-owned Love Field and WRR Radio; essential city government documents, including the City Charter, City Codes, Annual Budgets, Annual Reports; and more than a quarter million photographic images.

                       

When:    Noon Wednesday April 15

 

Where:    Municipal Archives and Records Center, Dallas City Hall, L2DN

Who:    - Mayor Mike Rawlings
             - Wes Wise, former Dallas Mayor - Rosa A. Rios, City Secretary