Box 1
Container
Contains 30 Results:
Business Papers - Correspondence - Starret, Helen, E., 1882-1885
File — Box: 1, Folder: 15a
Identifier: Case Pullman 01/01/01
Scope and Contents note
From the Sub-Series:
Sleeping car innovator, and founder and President of the Pullman’s Palace Car Company, 1867-1897. Under George M. Pullman’s guidance the company expanded to hold a virtual monopoly on the construction and operation of railroad sleeping cars in the United States. In 1880 Pullman also constructed an entire town, Pullman, on Lake Calumet, south of Chicago, to accommodate workers in his newly built Pullman Car Works. Pullman died in 1897, three years after a disastrous strike convulsed the...
Dates:
1882-1885
Business Papers - Correspondence - Miscellaneous, 1884-1 892
File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Identifier: Case Pullman 01/01/01
Scope and Contents note
From the Sub-Series:
Sleeping car innovator, and founder and President of the Pullman’s Palace Car Company, 1867-1897. Under George M. Pullman’s guidance the company expanded to hold a virtual monopoly on the construction and operation of railroad sleeping cars in the United States. In 1880 Pullman also constructed an entire town, Pullman, on Lake Calumet, south of Chicago, to accommodate workers in his newly built Pullman Car Works. Pullman died in 1897, three years after a disastrous strike convulsed the...
Dates:
1884-1 892
Business Papers - Court Cases -Pullman's Palace Car Company vs. Boston & Albany Railroad, 1890
File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Identifier: Case Pullman 01/01/01
Scope and Contents note
From the Sub-Series:
Sleeping car innovator, and founder and President of the Pullman’s Palace Car Company, 1867-1897. Under George M. Pullman’s guidance the company expanded to hold a virtual monopoly on the construction and operation of railroad sleeping cars in the United States. In 1880 Pullman also constructed an entire town, Pullman, on Lake Calumet, south of Chicago, to accommodate workers in his newly built Pullman Car Works. Pullman died in 1897, three years after a disastrous strike convulsed the...
Dates:
1890
Business Papers - Court Cases -Pullman's Palace Car Company vs. Speck, 1886
File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Identifier: Case Pullman 01/01/01
Scope and Contents note
From the Sub-Series:
Sleeping car innovator, and founder and President of the Pullman’s Palace Car Company, 1867-1897. Under George M. Pullman’s guidance the company expanded to hold a virtual monopoly on the construction and operation of railroad sleeping cars in the United States. In 1880 Pullman also constructed an entire town, Pullman, on Lake Calumet, south of Chicago, to accommodate workers in his newly built Pullman Car Works. Pullman died in 1897, three years after a disastrous strike convulsed the...
Dates:
1886
Business Papers - Cowell Platform & Coupling Co., 1887-1888
File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Identifier: Case Pullman 01/01/01
Scope and Contents note
From the Sub-Series:
Sleeping car innovator, and founder and President of the Pullman’s Palace Car Company, 1867-1897. Under George M. Pullman’s guidance the company expanded to hold a virtual monopoly on the construction and operation of railroad sleeping cars in the United States. In 1880 Pullman also constructed an entire town, Pullman, on Lake Calumet, south of Chicago, to accommodate workers in his newly built Pullman Car Works. Pullman died in 1897, three years after a disastrous strike convulsed the...
Dates:
1887-1888