Pullman Standard photograph collection [graphic], 1899-1929.

 

Finding Aid for the Collection at the Chicago History Museum, Research Center

By Diane Ryan; rev. by D. Rinder, 2008

 

© Copyright 2014, Chicago Historical Society, 1601 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60614-6038

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Title: Pullman Standard photograph collection [graphic]

Main entry: Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company

Inclusive dates: 1899-1929.

Size:

Call #: 1982.0157 PPL:

            315 photographic prints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.

            44 photographic prints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.

            35 photographic prints : b&w ; 11 x 14 in.

Call #: 1982.0157 PPN-0088:

            3 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.

Call #: 1982.0157 PNN-0086:

            30 negatives : cellulose nitrate ; 8 x 10 in.

Call #: 1982.0157 PGN-0274-0288:

            36 negatives : glass ; 5 x 7 in.

            ca. 300 negatives : glass ; 8 x10 in.

            33 negatives : glass ; 11 x 14 in.

Accession #: 1982.0157

 

Restriction: To consult the glass negatives in this collection in the Research Center it is necessary to make an advance appointment (email: Research@chicagohistory.org ).

Restriction: Nitrate negatives closed pending digitization.

 

Description of the collection:

Photographs of the town and activities of Pullman, Ill. (now a Chicago community) after the death of founder, industrialist and community planner George Pullman. Predominant are exteriors and interiors of industrial buildings, some of which show men engaged in labor. Also includes several photographs of Pullman manufactured railroad cars, including exteriors of freight and passenger cars, interiors of parlor and passenger cars. Some scenes show offices with men and women doing office work. Other scenes show the town's buildings such as dwellings, the administration building, fire department, hospital, library, Hotel Florence and the Arcade. Town activities show a few parades, war bond rallies during World War I, Black military men posed in a group, and a small baseball game. Also includes a few general cityscapes, town plans and industrial scenes in winter. Includes portraits of individual workers, of George Pullman and photographs of awards and memorial plaques to him.

 

Most original photoprints (Series 2-3) have matching photonegatives.

 

The nitrate negatives are described in more detail in a separate record in the online catalog with the title Pullman Standard nitrate negative collection and an attached detailed list.

 

Gift of Pullman Standard, Inc., 1969 (1982.0157).

 

Storage:  Box Lot (3 boxes of photoprints)

 

List of online catalog headings:

Pullman, George Mortimer, 1831-1897

Cermak, Anton Joseph, 1873-1933

Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company

Pullman Company

Hotel Florence (Chicago, Ill.)

Packard Auto Body Shop (Chicago, Ill.)

Railroad stations -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Railroad shops & yards -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Railroad tracks -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Students -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Winter -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Women -- Work -- Illinois -- Chicago.

African Americans -- Military service.

Baseball -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Commercial buildings -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Construction industry -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Dwellings -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Fire departments -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Hospitals -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Hotels -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Industrial buildings -- Alabama.

Industrial buildings -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Industrial buildings -- Pennsylvania.

Industrialists -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1910-1919.

Laborers -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Libraries. -- Illinois. -- Chicago.

Machinery -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Offices -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Parades & processions -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Plazas -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Railroad freight cars -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Railroad passenger cars -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Pullman (Chicago, Ill.)

Film negatives.

Silver gelatin prints.

 

Container list of box and folder numbers and titles:

Call #: 1982.0157 PPL:

Series 1:  Modern copy prints

Box 1

1  Bodies of water

2  Cityscapes & plans

3  Dwellings

4  Exhibits

5  Furnishings

6  Hospital

7  Industrial buildings I

8  Industrial buildings II

9  Industrial buildings--Construction

10  Industrial buildings--Northeast from Administration Building

11  Industry--Exteriors

12  Industry--Interiors

13  Industry--Packard Auto Body Shop

14  Library

15  Monuments & memorials

16  Offices

17  Parades & processions

 

Box 2

1  People

2  Public & semi-public buildings

3  Railroad freight cars

4  Railroad passenger cars

5  Railroad passenger cars--Interiors

6  Railroads

7  Sports

8  War bonds & funds

9  Winter

 

Series 2:  Original prints

10  Dwellings

11  Industrial buildings

12  Industrial buildings--Alabama

13  Industry--Exteriors

14  Industry--Interiors

15  People

16  Public buildings

 

Series 3:  11 x 14 in. modern copy prints

Box 3

1  Administration & commercial buildings

2  Awards to George Pullman

3  Cityscapes

4  Fire department

5  Industrial buildings

6  Industrial buildings--Pennsylvania

7  Railroad cars

8  Street railroads

 

Call #: 1982.0157 PPN-0088:

B/w copy negatives

1  Administration Building

2  Exterior Pullman car

3  Interior Pullman car

 

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