From 1867 until 1927 the Pullman’s Palace Car Company and Pullman Company issued securities. For the following twenty years securities were issued by the Pullman Company’s corporate parent, Pullman, Inc. After the anti-trust suit forced break-up of Pullman, Inc., the Pullman Company was sold to the railroads in 1947. This new Pullman Company again issued securities. With a capitalization of around 40 million dollars, the firm transferred 731,350 shares of stock to fifty-seven cooperating railroads.

Bonds and stock certificates, stockholder documentation, and Pullman Company-owned securities records, dating primarily from 1867 to 1927, when the company, as a subsidiary, no longer issued stock. Included are samples of three 1870s bearer bond issues of the Pullman’s Palace Car Company, including one large holding of Andrew Carnegie, samples of stock certificates issued, 1867-1927 and 1945-1971, stock ledgers, 1868-1927, stockholder lists, 1899-1926, and various issuance, dividend, and discharge records. Pullman Company-owned securities ledgers and statements, 1883-ca. 1940’s, document company investments and there are also miscellaneous bonds, notes, and stock certificates of local railroads, expositions (World’s Columbian, Louisiana Purchase), and of the Pullman Porter’s Publishing Co.

For Pullman, Inc. securities records, see Record Group 11, Pullman Company Archives.

For securities records of subsidiary and acquired companies, see Record Group 10, Pullman Company Archives.