Series 01: Payroll records, 1887-1969
Scope and Contents note
16 mm. microfilm reels containing copies of payrolls for the Pullman’s Palace Car Company, the Pullman Company, and its subsidiaries and affiliates. Parent company payrolls include the general office, 1888-1950 (reels 1-35), regional repair shops, 1887-1950 (reels 36-216), Pullman Car Works, 1887-1924 (reels 216-332), town of Pullman and laundry, 1887-1908 (reels 333-338), operating districts, 1893-1950 (reels 360-1079), and all employees, 1951-1969 (reels 1081-1442, P2-P14, and 2.2 series). Subsidiary and acquired company payrolls include Pullman Iron and Steel Company, 1887-1889 (reels329-330), Union Foundry and Pullman Car Wheel Works, 1887-1894 (reels331-332), Pullman Railroad Company, 1909-1915, and Wagner Palace Car Company, 1886-1889 (back pay, reels 341-342). There are also paper payroll records, including monthly gross payrolls by type of employee, 1950-1959, payroll registers, 1940s, and Calumet Shops individual payroll sheets.
Dates
- Creation: 1887-1969
Creator
- From the Collection: Pullman Company (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
The Pullman Company records are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
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Arrangement note
Although paper records are unprocessed, they are open and available for research. Microfilms are stored in the 4a stacks microfilm storage room.
Personnel records less than fifty years old open for research with the user’s written assurance that information from the records will be used for statistical or summary purposes only and that no specific names or individually identifiable information will be disclosed.
Survey sheets describing contents of unprocessed boxes and volumes available in the library.
General Physical Description note
6 record cartons, 4 oversize boxes, 13 volumes, and 28 drawers of microfilm
Repository Details
Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
312-255-3512
reference@newberry.org