Modern Manuscripts & Archives at the Newberry

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Reports, memoranda, and correspondence related to the activities and responsibilities of the GPTD, and not specific to any Passenger Train Line. Includes files regarding the handling of Mail, and reports on the quality control of the passengers' experience. Includes some publicity materials as well as routine administrative files, primarily from the late 1950s to the early 1960s. Also includes Files for Special train movements (that is, chartered trains by various organizations or for...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Reports, memoranda, and correspondence related to the activities and responsibilities of the GPTD, and not specific to any Passenger Train Line. Includes files regarding the handling of Mail, and reports on the quality control of the passengers' experience. Includes some publicity materials as well as routine administrative files, primarily from the late 1950s to the early 1960s. Also includes Files for Special train movements (that is, chartered trains by various organizations or for...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Reports, memoranda, and correspondence related to the activities and responsibilities of the GPTD, and not specific to any Passenger Train Line. Includes files regarding the handling of Mail, and reports on the quality control of the passengers' experience. Includes some publicity materials as well as routine administrative files, primarily from the late 1950s to the early 1960s. Also includes Files for Special train movements (that is, chartered trains by various organizations or for...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Reports, memoranda, and correspondence related to the activities and responsibilities of the GPTD, and not specific to any Passenger Train Line. Includes files regarding the handling of Mail, and reports on the quality control of the passengers' experience. Includes some publicity materials as well as routine administrative files, primarily from the late 1950s to the early 1960s. Also includes Files for Special train movements (that is, chartered trains by various organizations or for...

Scope and Content of the Collection From the Collection: Miscellaneous materials primarily concerning the historic Town of Pullman and Pullman Manufacturing Company, 1881-2001. Includes photographs, scrapbooks, and ephemera concerning the town of Pullman and the Pullman manufacturing company. Car related materials consist primarily of Pullman advertisements, a small collection of drawings and postcards. Included among the car related materials is a roster of Amtrak Passenger cars. There are drawings and articles concerning the Corliss...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Pullman’s Palace Car Company model town conceived by George M. Pullman to house employees of his new car works on Lake Calumet, south of Chicago. With buildings designed by Solon Spenser Beman and grounds by Nathan F. Barrett, the much-acclaimed town received its first residents in 1881. The company’s ownership of the town, which had been the object of national scrutiny during the 1894 Pullman strike, was short-lived. Ordered in 1898 by the Illinois Supreme Court to sell all its...

Scope and Contents note From the Sub-Series: Central Labor Relations Department office files probably started in the late 1930s or early 1940s by F. L. Simmons' successor as supervisor of Industrial Relations, H. R. Lary.Numerical subject file concerning all types of Pullman Company labor and personnel matters from the early 1900s to 1970, with greatest emphasis on the years from 1940-1960. Topics covered include labor agreements, federal railroad acts and state laws, wages, hours, employees in military service (World Wars...

Scope and Content of the Collection From the Collection: Miscellaneous materials primarily concerning the historic Town of Pullman and Pullman Manufacturing Company, 1881-2001. Includes photographs, scrapbooks, and ephemera concerning the town of Pullman and the Pullman manufacturing company. Car related materials consist primarily of Pullman advertisements, a small collection of drawings and postcards. Included among the car related materials is a roster of Amtrak Passenger cars. There are drawings and articles concerning the Corliss...

Scope and Content of the Collection From the Collection: Miscellaneous materials primarily concerning the historic Town of Pullman and Pullman Manufacturing Company, 1881-2001. Includes photographs, scrapbooks, and ephemera concerning the town of Pullman and the Pullman manufacturing company. Car related materials consist primarily of Pullman advertisements, a small collection of drawings and postcards. Included among the car related materials is a roster of Amtrak Passenger cars. There are drawings and articles concerning the Corliss...

Scope and Content of the Collection From the Collection: Miscellaneous materials primarily concerning the historic Town of Pullman and Pullman Manufacturing Company, 1881-2001. Includes photographs, scrapbooks, and ephemera concerning the town of Pullman and the Pullman manufacturing company. Car related materials consist primarily of Pullman advertisements, a small collection of drawings and postcards. Included among the car related materials is a roster of Amtrak Passenger cars. There are drawings and articles concerning the Corliss...

Scope and Content of the Collection From the Collection: Miscellaneous materials primarily concerning the historic Town of Pullman and Pullman Manufacturing Company, 1881-2001. Includes photographs, scrapbooks, and ephemera concerning the town of Pullman and the Pullman manufacturing company. Car related materials consist primarily of Pullman advertisements, a small collection of drawings and postcards. Included among the car related materials is a roster of Amtrak Passenger cars. There are drawings and articles concerning the Corliss...

Scope and Contents note From the Sub-Series: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, agreements, etc., of Pullman Company General Counsels from John S. Runnells to Martin J. Rock regarding the legal aspects of company business. Included are records relating to contracts, retirement, life insurance and pension plans, Interstate Commerce Commission matters, laundry and shop properties, and other affairs. There is also considerable documentation of the 1940's anti-trust suit (U.S. vs. Pullman, Civil Action No. 994) and the resulting sale of...

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Contains articles, book reviews, book covers, correspondence, photographs, and drafts of books written by Virgil Vogel (1929-1991). Major works (some in numerous drafts) include American Indian Medicine, Indian Names in Michigan, Indian Place Names in Illinois, Indian Women, Iowa Place Names of Indian Origin, and Their Name is on Your Waters.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Group: Correspondence, reports, research notes, articles, and speeches relating to Towner's activities on behalf of the Newberry Library. Also personal papers. Correspondence includes incoming and outgoing administrative letters arranged chronologically. Administrative subject files include correspondence, reports, etc., regarding Library personnel, collections, conferences, departments, events, gifts, property, and trustees. Also included are Towner's articles, reviews, speeches, reports, and...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Group: Correspondence, reports, research notes, articles, and speeches relating to Towner's activities on behalf of the Newberry Library. Also personal papers. Correspondence includes incoming and outgoing administrative letters arranged chronologically. Administrative subject files include correspondence, reports, etc., regarding Library personnel, collections, conferences, departments, events, gifts, property, and trustees. Also included are Towner's articles, reviews, speeches, reports, and...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Letters to Judge Lambert Tree, together with drafts of outgoing replies, concerning national, local, and international politics and diplomacy, as well as affairs in Chicago. Also includes routine correspondence regarding invitations, introductions, and appointments. National. political, and diplomatic correspondents include Adlai Stevenson, Grover Cleveland, and William Howard Taft, and also Thomas F. Bayard, Isaac Bell Jr., Walter Q Gresham, Robert McLane, William Ralls Morrison, Robert B....

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Collection includes Martin J. Rock's correspondence regarding several legal cases regarding the Pullman Company, including insurance cases and the dissolution of the company. Collection contains data used to represent Pullman in these cases, including official company documents, board of director information, and financial records from 1947 to 1995.

Scope and Content of the Collection From the Collection: Miscellaneous materials primarily concerning the historic Town of Pullman and Pullman Manufacturing Company, 1881-2001. Includes photographs, scrapbooks, and ephemera concerning the town of Pullman and the Pullman manufacturing company. Car related materials consist primarily of Pullman advertisements, a small collection of drawings and postcards. Included among the car related materials is a roster of Amtrak Passenger cars. There are drawings and articles concerning the Corliss...

Scope and Content of the Collection From the Collection: Miscellaneous materials primarily concerning the historic Town of Pullman and Pullman Manufacturing Company, 1881-2001. Includes photographs, scrapbooks, and ephemera concerning the town of Pullman and the Pullman manufacturing company. Car related materials consist primarily of Pullman advertisements, a small collection of drawings and postcards. Included among the car related materials is a roster of Amtrak Passenger cars. There are drawings and articles concerning the Corliss...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: STORED OFFSITE – Contact reference@newberry.org for access. Pullman’s Palace Car Company and Pullman Company accounting records, including ledgers and subsidiary ledgers, 1867-1953 and 1973-1930, journals, 1867-1954, cash journals, 1870-1925 and 1942-1945, and government orders accounts receivable registers, 1942-1947. There are also ledgers for the Cashier’s Department, 1885-1889, Earnings Department, 1881-1938, and town of Pullman, 1880-1885; and journals for the Earnings Department,...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Administrative files of Public Relations Department executives George A. Kelly, Justin J. Nolan, and Alfred E. Greco. The majority of the records date from 1949-1958, but there is also considerable documentation of public relations activities in the late 1920s and 1930s. Included are advertising agency and consultant recommendations and proposals, working files on the preparation and distribution of advertising brochures, car cards, films, exhibits, etc., Pullman Company-related subject...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Administrative files of Public Relations Department executives George A. Kelly, Justin J. Nolan, and Alfred E. Greco. The majority of the records date from 1949-1958, but there is also considerable documentation of public relations activities in the late 1920s and 1930s. Included are advertising agency and consultant recommendations and proposals, working files on the preparation and distribution of advertising brochures, car cards, films, exhibits, etc., Pullman Company-related subject...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Administrative files of Public Relations Department executives George A. Kelly, Justin J. Nolan, and Alfred E. Greco. The majority of the records date from 1949-1958, but there is also considerable documentation of public relations activities in the late 1920s and 1930s. Included are advertising agency and consultant recommendations and proposals, working files on the preparation and distribution of advertising brochures, car cards, films, exhibits, etc., Pullman Company-related subject...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Administrative files of Public Relations Department executives George A. Kelly, Justin J. Nolan, and Alfred E. Greco. The majority of the records date from 1949-1958, but there is also considerable documentation of public relations activities in the late 1920s and 1930s. Included are advertising agency and consultant recommendations and proposals, working files on the preparation and distribution of advertising brochures, car cards, films, exhibits, etc., Pullman Company-related subject...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Administrative files of Public Relations Department executives George A. Kelly, Justin J. Nolan, and Alfred E. Greco. The majority of the records date from 1949-1958, but there is also considerable documentation of public relations activities in the late 1920s and 1930s. Included are advertising agency and consultant recommendations and proposals, working files on the preparation and distribution of advertising brochures, car cards, films, exhibits, etc., Pullman Company-related subject...