Calumet Shops - Car Instructions and Standards Index, 1898-1916
Scope and Contents note
Primarily Calumet Shops correspondence, statements, and car shopping records, 1900-1936, and also some Denver Shops start-up records, 1898-1910. Records maintained by Calumet Shops Managers James Wares and James P. Carey include car shopping indexes and registers, which describe repairs to cars, 1900-1936, outgoing correspondence of Wares, 1904-1905, and Carey, 1918-1922 (regarding employee claims), correspondence received indexes and registers, 1900-1936, correspondence and blueprints relating to the construction of new shop buildings, 1920-1928, an employment record, 1904-1905, financial statements, 1900-1912, and records relating to the outfitting of ICC business cars, 1913-1915. Denver shops records include a property lease agreement with the Union Pacific Railroad, correspondence regarding employees and equipment, and inventories.
Dates
- Creation: 1898-1916
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.
Repository Details
Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository
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Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
312-255-3512
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