THIS COLLECTION HAS BEEN INTEGRATED INTO COLLECTION AC0181.
Records of construction by plant. Includes orders, dates of construction, customers and costs for passenger, dining and freight cars.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur D. Dubin Pullman Palace Car Co. Construction and Registration Books, 1875-1911, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
In 1867 George Mortimer Pullman (1831-1897) and Ben Field organized the Pullman Palace Car Co. "This company became the world's greatest car-building and car-repairing enterprise, with plants located at Pullman, Illinois (now part of Chicago), and many other places in North and South America and even in Europe,"--Hubbard Freeman in the "Encyclopedia of North American Railroading." These registers and records pertain to the manufacturing end of the company--the Chicago works at Pullman, Illinois.
Collection transferred to the Archives Center from the Division of Transportation (now Division of Work and Industry), 1980, 1984
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