 | Stock certificate, Union Rolling Mill Company. The factory is shown, with a boat and farm wagons in the foreground. "This is to certify that Geo. M. Pullman is the proprietor of 26 shares of Capital Stock of Union Rolling Mill Company… November, 1879." U.S. Steel News, Vol. I, Oct. 1936, p. 29. Copyright USX-US Steel Group, 600 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15219-4776. All rights reserved. Our thanks to US Steel. 11.6.4 |
 | Institutional ad, Pennsylvania Railroad. "Gimme a Ticket to TEXAS." A boy stands at a ticket window. "The ticket agent had been a boy himself. He understood - too well, from the standpoint of this young adventurer. He was perhaps eleven, and he made his request with elaborate carelessness. 'Gimme a ticket to Texas.' 'Where to in Texas?' the ticket seller asked smiling. 'Oh, anywhere in Texas.' 'Half fare to Texas,' he was informed with mock gravity, 'will cost you $35.' The young man produced a roll of bills. Later, under the kindly but firm questioning of station authorities, he confessed that he had taken French leave from home after scraping together enough cash to get to Texas. He was, he said, going to fight Indians. He, with the money, was returned to his parent....An elderly Quaker woman must return to Iowa to be with a sick daughter. Yet who will meet her nephew from Finland who speaks no English and is even now on the high seas? The ticket agent solves her difficulty....A sick child who must be given special accommodations. A mother who wants to send money and a ticket to her runaway son. Hundreds of such cases come to the ticket agent's office on the floor of the Pennsylvania Station in New York. Day after day such emergencies are met and woven into the smooth operation of a station through which 150,000 travelers pass daily. But this is only one phase of the varied and complex work of the ticket agents and ticket sellers...They must be ever alert to handle accurately and speedily the largest volume of ticket sales and Pullman reservations made in any railroad station in the world - reading at all times to call into play knowledge of transportation facilities to the four corners of the globe and to make suggestions that save the traveling public thousands of dollars every year. Such must be travel experts as well as diplomats of unusual tact and discernment. They are. With them Pennsylvania service starts...service....operation...does not forget to be human, courteous, helpful." Copyright holder unknown. In Saturday Evening Post, April 7, 1928, p. 99. 11.5.7 |
 | Poster ad for the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, between Chicago and Omaha, late 1860s. "These palatial PULLMAN HOTEL CARS are run by no road except the Chicago & Northwestern Railway." A dining room scene. Note the folding upper bunks. In C. Hamilton Ellis, Railway Art, 1977, p. 53. 8.12.3, 8.12.4 |
 | A Pullman car advertisement for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, 1879. "This is the only route running Pullman dining cars east from Omaha. This is the only route running Pullman sixteen-wheel drawing room sleeping cars in America…" Dining cars are presented here as showcases of a railroad's wares. In Lucius Beebe, Mr. Pullman's Elegant Palace Car, 1961, p. 25. 8.12.3, 8.12.4 |
 | Mrs. Grover Cleveland on her passage to visit friends in Memphis stayed in this Pullman parlor car, 1893. A private drawing room and flowers of well-wishers, and outside, a romantic Southern landscape. Harper's Weekly, 1893. In Lucius Beebe, Mr. Pullman's Elegant Palace Car, 1961, p. 175. 8.12.4 |
 | The Pullman sleeping car "America," part of the Pullman exhibit at the Chicago Fair of 1893. Perhaps the most resolutely elegant car designed, its upholstery was royal blue and old-gold plush; electricity supplemented its nicely designed Pinsch gas fixtures, the berth fronts were of Honduran mahogany ornamented with a classic wreath and love-knot motif and its transoms were of leaded art glass let into a curved clerestory with intricate marquetry and gold inlay. Tufted headboards framed the lowers and velvet corded portieres set off the doorways. In Lucius Beebe, Mr. Pullman's Elegant Palace Car, 1961, p. 331. 8.12.4 |
 | Plan of Pullman, Illinois, 1885. This is an example of a complete company town conceived and built as a unit, under the direction of a team of designers who presumably embodied in the plan the most up-to-date theories and practices of town design. Built by George Pullman in the 1880s to provide his Pullman Company with a dependable, more efficient work force, this town became a showplace of company towns. However, the town was run by the enlightened paternalism of Pullman, and after the Pullman Strike of 1894, the Illinois Supreme Court ordered the Pullman Company to divest itself of all real property not required for strictly manufacturing operations. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 70, No. 417, 1885. In John W. Reps, The Making of Urban America, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1965, p. 423. 8.12.3, 11.2.9 |
 | Pullman workers' houses, built 1879-84. Copyright holder and location unknown. 8.12.4 |
 | Pullman's own private car, "Monitor," a super-deluxe sample and showcase of his palace car line. Built at Pullman in 1877 and known everywhere the rails were laid, its elegant appointments proved irresistible to rich men and executives, and orders poured into Pullman's book in its wake. A shrewd understanding of the value of publicity suggested that its owner place it at the disposal of every public figure of consequence for nearly three decades. Copyright holder unknown. In Lucius Beebe, Mr. Pullman's Elegant Palace Car, 1961, p. 400. 8.12.4 |
 | George Pullman's planned model suburb of Chicago about 1885. The inset (lower left) shows the plan of the city and its relation to the Pullman railroad car works. Cincinnati Historical Society, Cincinnati Museum Center, 1301 Western Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45203-1130. In Zane L. Miller, The Urbanization of Modern America, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., New York, 1973, p. 140. 8.12.3, 11.2.9 |
 | The Pullman Strike, Chicago, 1894. A fleet of boxcars, set ablaze during the Pullman strike, burns fiercely in a Chicago yard. With rail traffic snarled, supplies dwindled and a meat famine threatened the Midwest. In Eds. of Time-Life Books, The Life History of the United States, Vol. 7, 1974, p. 93. 8.12.6, 11.6.5 |
 | The Pullman Strike. 1894. A row of tents, homes for troops in the Pullman strike, lines a Chicago street. The famed artist Frederic Remington, sketching the strike for Harper's, damned it as a "rape of government." Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, July 19, 1894, p. 40. In Eds. of Time-Life Books, The Life History of the United States, Vol. 7, 1974, p. 93. 8.12.6, 11.6.5 |
 | A Pullman advertisement. A languid lady promotes the advanced accommodations of a Midwestern railroad. Outlined in her chair is the route of the road. 1880-1900. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540. LC-USZC2-4891. In Eds. of Time-Life Books, The Life History of the United States, Vol. 8, 1974, p. 159. 8.12.3, 8.12.4 |
 | A Pullman lunchroom, detail. Eating in haste, passengers besiege a station lunch counter during the ten-minute train stop in the 1880s. Poor food at vexing prices was the traveler's lot until the spread of dining cars and restaurant chains. Detail of LB-E-20. Chicago Historical Society, Clark Street at North Ave., Chicago, IL 60614-6071. In Eds. of Time-Life Books, The Life History of the United States, Vol. 8, 1974, pp. 162-3. 8.12.4 |
 | A Pullman lunchroom in the 1880s, detail. Eating in haste, passengers besiege a station lunch counter during the ten minute train stop. Poor food at vexing prices was the traveler's lot until the spread of dining cars and restaurant chains. See also LB-E-19. Chicago Historical Society, Clark Street at North Ave., Chicago, IL 60614-6071. In Eds. of Time-Life Books, The Life History of the United States, Vol. 8, 1974, pp. 162-3. 8.12.4 |
 | The market square of Pullman. 1905. "The main boulevard is 100 feet in width. The center of the village is formed by a market building of some pretension in an open square planted with trees, surrounded by an arcade recalling Italy." Budgett Meakin, Model Factories and Villages: Ideal Conditions of Labour and Housing, George W. Jacobs & Co., 1905, p. 386. 8.12.3, 11.2.9 |
 | George Mortimer Pullman. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. In David F. Selvin, Eugene V. Debs, Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, Co., 1966, p. 73. 8.12.4 |
 | National Guardsmen firing into an angry mob of demonstrators during the Chicago Pullman strike of 1894. Drawing. Harper's Weekly, 1894. In Eds. of American Heritage, An American Heritage Pictorial History of the Presidents of the U.S., Vol. II, 1968, pp. 572-3. 8.12.3, 8.12.6, 11.6.5 |
 | "A special patrolling train on the Rock Island Railroad, guarded by Company C of the 15th U.S. Infantry, shown at Blue Island, Illinois, during the Pullman Strike, 1894." Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540. In David F. Selvin, Eugene Debs, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, Co. 1966, p. 111. 8.12.3, 8.12.6 |
 | The City of Salina, 1934. During the race to put a high-speed rail streamliner into passenger service, the Union Pacific, under contract to the Pullman Car and Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, delivered the City of Salina on Feb. 12, 1934. Some called it a "monster airplane fuselage on wheels" but the Union Pacific considered it "Tomorrow's Train Today!" In the tail was a buffet kitchen for light meals, for service at passengers' chairs. Exhaustive study was done of the data from aircraft wind-tunnel tests and wooden scale-model tests. As a result the trucks (wheel units) were shrouded and the units were connected by rubber sheeting to close gaps. Doors and windows were set flush with the body, which was three feet lower than conventional cars. This train could attain 110 mph and cruise at 90 mph. The train rushed from Omaha to Washington, D.C. and was inspected by President Roosevelt. It continued a 13,000 mile tour through 22 states. At the 1934 Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago, over 1-1/2 million potential customers toured this first streamliner. She was scrapped for war materiel in 1942 after 900,000 miles. Courtesy of The Union Pacific Railroad, 1400 Douglas St., Omaha, NE 68179. All rights reserved. The Union Pacific Railroad Museum Collection, 200 Pearl St., Council Bluffs, IA 51503. Our thanks to the Museum. In Donald J. Bush, The Streamlined Decade, 1975, #47. 11.5.7 |
 | Salesman gather at Pullman Exchange in Portland Hotel, Cripple Creek, CO, 1895 Copyright holder unknown. Denver Public Library, 10 W. 14th Ave Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204. In Timothy B. Spears, "100 Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman in American Culture," (New Haven: Yale University Press, PO Box 209040, New Haven, CT 06520-9040), 1995, p. 96 |
 | Pullman Sleeper on a Vestibuled Train, 1889 Copyright holder unknown. Strong National Museum of Play®, One Manhattan Square, Rochester, NY 14607. |
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