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Vol. 2 of 9: Pullman Company scrapbooks, 1883-1924

General scrapbooks assembled or maintained in the Second Vice President's office of the Pullman's Palace Car Company and, after 1899, the Pullman Company. Newspaper and magazine clippings, together with some printed notices of the Pullman Company and other firms, 1883-1924. Clippings are primarily from Eastern, southern, and Midwestern newspapers, and deal mainly with the various aspects of Pullman's Palace Car Company and Pullman Company operations. Included are articles concerning accidents, excursions, fates, exhibitions, technological innovations, car interiors and exteriors, car design, officers and employees, the Pullman strike, the town of Pullman, the Pullman Building in Chicago, corporate finances, annual meetings, etc. There is also information about competitor sleeping car firms and their acquisition by Pullman, George Pullman and his family, prominent Chicagoans and railroad men, and the railroad industry in general -- strikes, mergers, new lines, personnel, facilities, etc.

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