Securities - Stock Certificates - $100 Share Certificates, Capital $1,000,000, 1884
Scope and Contents note
Compartment sleeping car company incorporated in 1883 by William D’Alton Mann. The firm was purchased in 1888 by the newly formed Union Palace Car Company, which was itself acquired three months after its founding in January, 1889, by the Pullman’s Palace Car Company. Mann’s corporate identity was retained until 1909 and the company was operated through Pullman’s Chicago office.
Primarily financial and securities records, 1883-1909. Included are a financial ledger, 1885-1909, which also contains entries for the Union Palace Car Company, a stock ledger and index, 1883-1909, stock summary statements, 1905 and 1909, and several stock certificates, bearer bonds, and bond coupons. There are also two operating contracts with the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Company, 1884, and the Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City Railway Company, 1888
See also records of the Union Palace Car Company, Record Group 10/00/08, Pullman Company Archives.
Dates
- Creation: 1884
Creator
- From the Collection: Pullman Company (Organization)
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Repository Details
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