Pullman Conductor's Cap
date: label: date made
content: ca 1967
label: date made
content: c. 1967
notes: label: Description
content: This particular cap is for a Pullman conductor. The cap is black with a flat circular top and a short visor. A gold braid stretches across the top of the brim attached around a brass button on both sides of the hat. A badge stamped with Pullman Conductor is attached to the front of the cap. It was owned by Wallace O. Jarrett who spent three decades working as a Conductor on Pullman sleeping cars attached to overnight trains running out of Washington Union Station, Washington, DC. The Pullman Company built, owned and managed sleeping cars on U.S. railroads from the 1870s until the 1960s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Railroads
label: Subject
content: Travel
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content: Work and Industry: Transportation, Railroad
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Work
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content: Transportation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0331.02
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0331.02
label: accession number
content: 1997.0331
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cap, pullman conductor's