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Box 1

 Container

Contains 2 Results:

Financial Records - Journal -Construction Accounts, Monthly -Town of Pullman, 1882-1886

 File — Box: 1, Volume: 1
Identifier: Case Pullman 07/00/04
Scope and Contents note From the Series: Pullman’s Palace Car Company model town conceived by George M. Pullman to house employees of his new car works on Lake Calumet, south of Chicago. With buildings designed by Solon Spenser Beman and grounds by Nathan F. Barrett, the much-acclaimed town received its first residents in 1881. The company’s ownership of the town, which had been the object of national scrutiny during the 1894 Pullman strike, was short-lived. Ordered in 1898 by the Illinois Supreme Court to sell all its...
Dates: 1882-1886

Financial Records - Ledger -Bills Receivable -Manufacturing Department (Loans, Real Property Sales, Car Leases and Sales), 1906-1919

 File — Box: 1, Volume: 2
Identifier: Case Pullman 07/00/04
Scope and Contents note From the Series: Pullman’s Palace Car Company model town conceived by George M. Pullman to house employees of his new car works on Lake Calumet, south of Chicago. With buildings designed by Solon Spenser Beman and grounds by Nathan F. Barrett, the much-acclaimed town received its first residents in 1881. The company’s ownership of the town, which had been the object of national scrutiny during the 1894 Pullman strike, was short-lived. Ordered in 1898 by the Illinois Supreme Court to sell all its...
Dates: 1906-1919