Pullman Company
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Frank H. Beberdick Pullman collection
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Beberdick Pullman
Abstract
Miscellaneous materials relating to the historic Pullman company town and Pullman Manufacturing Company, 1881-2001.
Dates:
1881-2001
Pullman Company records
Collection
Identifier: Case-Pullman-Main
Abstract
Records of this railroad sleeping-car operator and manufacturer. The Pullman Company (originally Pullman's Palace Car Company) revolutionized rail travel, dramatically increased employment opportunities for African Americans who served as porters on its cars, and had a significant impact on the American labor movement. Records for the entire firm are included until the mid-1920s division into operating and manufacturing companies; after that date, records mainly chronicle the activities of...
Dates:
1859-1982
William H. Peterson Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Peterson
Abstract
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and personal material of William H. Peterson, a World War II radar man and later engineer for the Pullman Company. Includes Peterson's schoolwork, wartime letters, and engineering designs. There is additional material for the Peterson family, including William's father Hartin F. Peterson, also a Pullman employee, such as his World War I photographs and his own draft work. Collection also contains genealogy and photographs of the...
Dates:
1891-2012
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- Subject: Pullman (Chicago, Ill.) X
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- Photographs -- 1851-1900 2
- Photographs -- 1901-1950 2
- Photographs -- 1951-2000 2
- Pullman (Chicago, Ill.) 2
- Bridgeport (Chicago, Ill.) -- History -- 20th century 1
- Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) -- Pictorial works 1
- Company towns -- United States -- History 1
- Correspondence -- 1901-1950 1
- Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
- Engineers -- United States 1
- Pullman (Chicago, Ill.) -- History -- 20th century 1
- Pullman Strike, 1894 1
- Pullman cars 1
- Pullman cars -- United States -- Drawings 1
- Railroad cars -- History 1
- Soldiers -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
- Soldiers' writings, American 1
- Sound recordings -- 1951-2000 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- United States 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Ocean -- Naval operations, American 1
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) -- Pictorial works 1 + ∧ less
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