General Office - Superintendent of Car Services, Aug. 1916

unspecified — Reel: 7

Identifier: Case Pullman 03/03/01

Staff Only

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). 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: Aug. 1916

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).

Medical records and records of disciplinary action are closed for a period of fifty years after the creation of the record. Such records may be disclosed only to the named individual or his legal representative. Application and service files that may contain medical and disciplinary information will be reviewed and records removed before the files are supplied to a researcher.

Personnel records less than fifty years old and not specified in (1) above are 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. Such information may be revealed only if the individual or his legal representative agrees to its release, or if the individual is deceased.

Photocopies of open personnel records less than fifty years old are supplied only for the researcher's personal use and may not be reproduced. All copies must be destroyed or returned upon completion of work.

Subgroup 02: General Auditor’s records, Series 03: Ledgers, Journals, and Registers are stored offsite. Contact reference@newberry.org for access.