Volume 2, Oct. 20, 1887 - May 7, 1890

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Identifier: Case Pullman 12/00/02

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From the Series:

Pullman, Illinois, a model company town, was conceived and constructed by George M. Pullman in 1880 to house the employees of his Pullman’s Palace Car Company manufacturing plant, the Pullman Car Works. A.S. Weinsheimer, Pullman’s corporate secretary, collected and preserved in scrapbooks articles discussing the community.

Newspaper clippings and periodical articles focusing on the tom of Pullman and its inhabitants, 1883-1890. Included are articles on a variety of town-related topics: the motive for and layout of the model community; praise for the town; prominent visitors; churches, political and athletic clubs, school, and library; residents’ complaints and other exposes of life in the company-controlled community; strikes, strike threats, and union activity among employees; crime in the town; Hyde Park, Illinois, politics and government; property tax assessments, etc. There are also some notes by Pullman Secretary A. S. Weinsheimer, articles about car construction, company personnel, and other town industries, such as the Allen Paper Car Wheel Co.

Scrapbooks have been digitized and are also available on 35 mm. microfilm in the General Reading Room of the library.

Dates

Creation: Oct. 20, 1887 - May 7, 1890

Creator

From the Collection: Pullman Company (Organization)

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The Pullman Company records are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).

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