Pullman Carafe
date: label: date made
content: ca 1935
label: date made
content: ca. 1935
name: label: maker
content: Landers, Frary & Clark
notes: label: Description
content: Pullman porters used insulated chrome carafes like this to serve passengers with hot and cold drinks. The carafe is the Stanley Super Vac that was made by the Landers, Frary & Clark Company in New Britain, Connecticut during the 1930s. Inscribed with “Pullman” on the side, the carafe has instructions for use on the bottom.
label: Description
content: Pullman cars were almost all sleeping cars with "sections" that converted from day seating to night-time berths, usually with a few separate, small rooms with their own toilet and sink. Each Pullman porter—one assigned per car—were on call throughout the day and night to serve their passengers. While the hours were stressful, pay was good because of union bargaining, especially when compared to many other jobs open to African Americans before the late 1960s. At home, porters were frequently leaders in their communities.
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Connecticut, New Britain
topic: label: Subject
content: Railroads
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content: Work and Industry: Transportation, Railroad
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content: America on the Move
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content: Transportation
label: Exhibition
content: America On The Move
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0044.06
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0044.06
label: accession number
content: 1987.0044
label: patent number
content: 1071817
label: patent number
content: 1691912
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Carafe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: chrome (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 3/4 in x 2 3/4 in; 27.305 cm x 6.985 cm