Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Pullman Sleeping Car’s design allowed train passengers, as printed on this clothes hanger, to “travel and sleep in ...
Back when Joe Szabo was a Metra conductor, Pullman was one of his favorite stops on the Electric District Line because of the strong community there as well as its place in history. So after he ...
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Epic guide to Pullman National Monument- Illinois
Pullman National Monument Pullman National Monument preserves one of the first planned industrial communities in America. The park explores the stories of the people who lived there and of the park's ...
Signed: J.L. Lee, P.E., Region XI History & Heritage Chairman--p. [8]. "HH1287."--p. [4] of cover. Sleeping cars (Railroads)--Design and construction--History ...
A. Philip Randolph set the stage for the Civil Rights movement by forming and leading the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925, which 10 years later became the first African American labor ...
In the spring of 1859, Chicago businessman George Pullman visited the railroad shops on Bloomington’s west side in order to build a prototype sleeping car, an ambitious venture that eventually gave ...
A South Side Chicago institution is honoring a historic milestone. On Aug. 25, 1925, Pullman porters formed what would become a historic union representing train workers. A century later, the ...
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