Modern Manuscripts & Archives at the Newberry

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: Historical and subject reference files containing a variety of Pullman Company records gathered from various sources within the firm, together with newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and other writings about the company. Includes documents and information about George M. Pullman and his businesses, properties and endowments (town of Pullman, Pullman Building, Pullman Car Works, Pullman Company Limited, Pullman Free School of Manual Training, Union Foundry and Pullman Car Wheel Works,...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Historical and subject reference files containing a variety of Pullman Company records gathered from various sources within the firm, together with newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and other writings about the company. Includes documents and information about George M. Pullman and his businesses, properties and endowments (town of Pullman, Pullman Building, Pullman Car Works, Pullman Company Limited, Pullman Free School of Manual Training, Union Foundry and Pullman Car Wheel Works,...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Historical and subject reference files containing a variety of Pullman Company records gathered from various sources within the firm, together with newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and other writings about the company. Includes documents and information about George M. Pullman and his businesses, properties and endowments (town of Pullman, Pullman Building, Pullman Car Works, Pullman Company Limited, Pullman Free School of Manual Training, Union Foundry and Pullman Car Wheel Works,...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Historical and subject reference files containing a variety of Pullman Company records gathered from various sources within the firm, together with newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and other writings about the company. Includes documents and information about George M. Pullman and his businesses, properties and endowments (town of Pullman, Pullman Building, Pullman Car Works, Pullman Company Limited, Pullman Free School of Manual Training, Union Foundry and Pullman Car Wheel Works,...

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 Sub-Series: Vice President and General Manager's central file, including records on cars, car service, commissary, employee information, railroads, sanitation, shops, etc. Among the files on all aspects of cars, car equipment, car service, car storage, etc., are numerous car sale records, 1945-1969, frequently listing heavyweight cars by name. Employee files include union demand, negotiation and agreement records, 1945-1969, Mexican employee relations records, 1931-1956, and files on benefits,...

Scope and Contents note From the Sub-Series: Pullman Car Lines Assistant Federal Auditor during the World War I government control of the railroads, and the Pullman Company’s first, 1920-1935, Supervisor of Industrial Relations. Simmons directed the company’s labor relations activities in the newly created Bureau of Industrial Relations and initiated company unions under the Plan of Employee Representation.Records concern Pullman Company working conditions and employee union activities from World War I to the Depression....

Scope and Contents note From the Sub-Series: Files of the Calumet Shops Superintendent of Safety and the Director of Safety and Compensation regarding matters relating to the safety of employees and the compensation of employees injured on the job. Included are accident records, 1927-1941 and 1961-1967, district and shop inspection reports, 1954-1968, and circulars and annual safety letters, 1944-1968. There are also files regarding injury expenses, protective clothing and equipment, occupational hazards and disease, and the promotion...

Scope and Contents note From the Sub-Series: Files of the Calumet Shops Superintendent of Safety and the Director of Safety and Compensation regarding matters relating to the safety of employees and the compensation of employees injured on the job. Included are accident records, 1927-1941 and 1961-1967, district and shop inspection reports, 1954-1968, and circulars and annual safety letters, 1944-1968. There are also files regarding injury expenses, protective clothing and equipment, occupational hazards and disease, and the promotion...

Scope and Contents note From the Sub-Series: Incomplete alphabetical (L-Q) administrative files of Pullman Company medical directors, Dr. T. R. Crowder, 1915-1942, and Dr. R. M. Graham, 1942-1967. Includes correspondence, internal memoranda, and reports covering such topics as employee medical examinations and examiners, contagious and occupational diseases, hazardous materials, and Pullman Company visiting nurses. There are also files regarding local and state public health requirements and sanitary codes.Personnel records...

Scope and Contents note From the Sub-Series: Incomplete alphabetical (L-Q) administrative files of Pullman Company medical directors, Dr. T. R. Crowder, 1915-1942, and Dr. R. M. Graham, 1942-1967. Includes correspondence, internal memoranda, and reports covering such topics as employee medical examinations and examiners, contagious and occupational diseases, hazardous materials, and Pullman Company visiting nurses. There are also files regarding local and state public health requirements and sanitary codes.Personnel records...

Scope and Contents note From the Sub-Series: Reports, correspondence, and memoranda of M. F. Morrissey, Pullman Company Chief Special Agent, regarding the investigation by railroad police of employees reported by passengers and of equipment loss, thefts, and other incidents occurring on Pullman cars.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...

Scope and Contents note From the Sub-Series: 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)....

Scope and Contents note From the Sub-Series: 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)....

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Group: Includes personal and professional correspondence, subject files, memos to staff members, invitations to Cullen and the Newberry and speeches by Cullen.Correspondence series is organized by organization or person. Correspondence sent by administrative personnel is filed under the main point of contact's name (ie: correspondence with Mayor Richard Daley's staff about the Mayor would be under Daley, Honorable Mayor Richard). Correspondence where Cullen was cc'd (ie: where he is...

Scope and Contents note From the Sub-Series: Attorney and Pullman Company executive, 1888-1922. Born in New Hampshire in 1844 and educated at Amherst College, John Sumner Runnells was admitted to the Iowa bar in 1869. After serving two years as a U. S. Consul in England, Runnells practiced law in Iowa where he mainly represented railroad companies in accident and injury claims cases. In 1888, Runnells joined the Pullman’s Palace Car Company as General Counsel and in 1911, he succeeded Robert T. Lincoln as President of the Pullman...

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Telegrams to and from various CB&Q officials including G. B. Harris, C. M. Higginson, J. J. Hill, and others concerning the movement of trains, railroad buildings and equipment, personnel issues, and travel plans. 1894 telegrams include subject files on the Great Northern and Pullman strikes as well as the march of “Coxey’s Army” led by Jacob Coxey. Coxey was an activist who organized a march to Washington to demand that the government provide work for the unemployed.

Scope and Contents note From the Sub-Series: Attorney, second President of the Pullman’s Palace Car Company (later Pullman Company), 1897 - 1911, and co-executor of the estate of George M. Pullman. Prior to his appointment as President, Robert Todd Lincoln served from 1892 - 1897 as the firm’s Special Counsel. During Lincoln’s tenure as President, the Pullman Company grew enormously and made a successful transition from wood to steel car construction. After his retirement in 1911, Lincoln was made Chairman of the Pullman Company Board...

Scope and Contents note From the Sub-Series: Attorney, second President of the Pullman’s Palace Car Company (later Pullman Company), 1897 - 1911, and co-executor of the estate of George M. Pullman. Prior to his appointment as President, Robert Todd Lincoln served from 1892 - 1897 as the firm’s Special Counsel. During Lincoln’s tenure as President, the Pullman Company grew enormously and made a successful transition from wood to steel car construction. After his retirement in 1911, Lincoln was made Chairman of the Pullman Company Board...

Scope and Contents note From the Sub-Series: Attorney, second President of the Pullman’s Palace Car Company (later Pullman Company), 1897 - 1911, and co-executor of the estate of George M. Pullman. Prior to his appointment as President, Robert Todd Lincoln served from 1892 - 1897 as the firm’s Special Counsel. During Lincoln’s tenure as President, the Pullman Company grew enormously and made a successful transition from wood to steel car construction. After his retirement in 1911, Lincoln was made Chairman of the Pullman Company Board...

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Probate records and other court documentation of the estate of George M. Pullman, including account settlements, claims, inventories, legacies, orders of distribution, probate court dockets, real estate and stock documentation, tax records, will, etc. There is also an index to estate documents filed at the end of the series.

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Contains engineering designs by William H. Peterson as well as employment applications and career history. Also a paper by Hartin Peterson and three coworkers on humidity control, and several of Hartin's design drafts with advice to William on different projects. Additional material includes Pullman employee publications, such as an 1893 copy of the Pullman journal, several editions of the Pullman Car Works Standard including reviews of the Pullman minstrel shows, and the Pullman News during...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Historical and subject reference files containing a variety of Pullman Company records gathered from various sources within the firm, together with newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and other writings about the company. Includes documents and information about George M. Pullman and his businesses, properties and endowments (town of Pullman, Pullman Building, Pullman Car Works, Pullman Company Limited, Pullman Free School of Manual Training, Union Foundry and Pullman Car Wheel Works,...