Mr. and Mrs. Arthur D. Dubin Pullman Palace Car Co. Car Construction and Registration Books
name: label: Creator
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.).  Division of Transportation
place: label: Place
content: Illinois
topic: label: Topic
content: Railroads
label: Topic
content: Transportation
creator: label: Creator
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.).  Division of Transportation
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: 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.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.6 Cubic feet (8 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1875-1911.
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Collection transferred to the Archives Center from the Division of Transportation (now Division of Work and Industry), 1980, 1984
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0158
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Ledgers (account books)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by NMAH Staff.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Ledgers (account books)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Records of construction by plant. Includes orders, dates of construction, customers and costs for passenger, dining and freight cars.