Modern Manuscripts & Archives at the Newberry

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 Full Inventory of Record Group 11: Pullman Incorporated available here.Parent company of the Pullman Company and the Pullman Car and Manufacturing Corporation chartered in Delaware, June, 1927. The operating arm of the firm, the Pullman Company, remained a corporate subsidiary of Pullman Inc. until 1947, following an anti - trust suit provoked ruling which required the...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Records involving the development and fundraising activities of MoMing. Many files relate to the research and planning of benefits, individual and corporate donor cultivation, and overall campaigns.There is some overlap between fundraising solicitations and grants, but most of the grant files are more formal applications that include a wealth of information regarding MoMing staffing, events, and financial information. Some fundraising solicitations include requests for items,...

Scope and Content of the Collection From the Collection:

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: The collection contains primarily clipping scrapbooks of editorials from Seymour’s years as editorial manager at the New York World. The majority of incoming correspondence consists of readers’ letters regarding his editorial columns while in Chicago. Several prominent Chicago figures wrote to Seymour praising his editorials including John P. Altgeld, Marshall Field, Frank O. Lowden, George Pullman, John R. Walsh, and Booker T. Washington.There is...

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...

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Reports, correspondence, drawings, and other items related to CB&Q equipment and property, including cars and steel rails as well as bridges, elevators, and stockyards. Also includes contracts and correspondence with the Pullman Company, and materials related to coal lands in Colorado and the Midwest.

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Photographs of various officers and others working for the CB&Q and the Burlington & Missouri Railroads, beginning in 1852. Many of the photographs are cabinet cards and other early prints of officials, collected by the wife of Charles Elliott Perkins, Edith Forbes Perkins (see also CB&Q A-4-1, Edith Forbes Perkins Papers, for more information). These photographs were originally in 4 volumes of cabinet card albums and were later removed from the albums. There is an index for each...

Scope and Contents note From the Sub-Series: Correspondence in the President’s File has been assigned “record file” numbers, each number representing a different exchange of letters on a given topic. Topics include all aspects of the railroad business such as: operations, personnel, unions, budgets, changes in the regulation of railroad commerce, and relations with other lines. The era covered in this correspondence was a time of major expansion of the Burlington system, and there is a great deal of material on the leasing and...

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...

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 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 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: 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,...