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Author : Ralph L. Barger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780897780612
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)
Download or read book A Century of Pullman Cars: The Palace Cars written by Ralph L. Barger and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph L. Barger
Publisher : Greenberg Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780897781404
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (814 download)
Download or read book A Century of Pullman Cars written by Ralph L. Barger and published by Greenberg Pub. This book was released on 1990-03 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic photos and detailed interior diagrams catalog the remarkable history of Pullman cars from simple wooden coaches to ornate and luxurious palaces on wheels. "Kalmbach Books cover a wide range of diversified subjects very well. They appeal to both the beginning hobbyist as well as the experienced one". -- Tom Smith, Jersey Short Hobby Center
Author : Liston E. Leyendecker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Palace Car Prince written by Liston E. Leyendecker and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palace Car Prince is the first book-length biography of George Pullman (1831-1897), an entrepreneur whose name became synonymous with the golden age of U.S. railroad travel in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this impressively researched work, Liston Leyendecker portrays the transformation of a man of vision who ascended to prominence following the Civil War only to lose control of his empire in the face of a rapidly changing world of industrial and labor relations. An adventurous young man, Pullman ventured, westward to Chicago and Colorado from his upstate New York home, eventually leaving a successful store in the Colorado goldfields in 1863 to return to Chicago and form his Palace Car Company, the manufacturer of luxury sleeping cars. Though Pullman's hard work brought him the admiration, power, and wealth he sought, it also tired him and made him increasingly irascible. As the Palace Car Company prospered, Pullman--who initially was regarded as a "hands-on" manager--became removed from the company's daily affairs. He relied more and more on the advice of his brother Albert, and growing isolation continued throughout his career and extended into family matters. The results of Pullman's aloofness became particularly apparent when, during the railroad workers' strike of 1894, he was publicly vilified as the archetypal nineteenth-century robber baron for his stubborn refusal to negotiate with the suffering strikers.
Author : Joseph Husband
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Story of the Pullman Car written by Joseph Husband and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1917 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully illustrated version, original pictures. Trains Railroads Collection provides a unique opportunity for researchers and railroad enthusiasts to easily access and explore pre-1923 titles focusing on the history, culture and experience of railroading. From the revolution of the state.
Author : Thomas Tramble
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738547893
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (478 download)
Download or read book The Pullman Porters and West Oakland written by Thomas Tramble and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hub of transportation and industry since the mid-19th century, West Oakland is today a vital commercial conduit and an inimitably distinct and diverse community within the Greater Oakland metropolitan area. The catalyst that transformed this neighborhood from a transcontinental rail terminal into a true settlement was the arrival of the railroad porters, employed by the Pullman Palace Car Company as early as 1867. After years of struggling in labor battles and negotiations, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Union became the first African Americanaled union to sign a contract with a large American company. The unionas West Coast headquarters were established at Fifth and Wood Streets in West Oakland. Soon families, benevolent societies, and churches followed, and a true community came into being.
Author : Pullman's Palace Car Company
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (244 download)
Download or read book Pullman's Palace Car Co written by Pullman's Palace Car Company and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes excerpts of newspaper articles re: the convenience and comfort of traveling via Pullman's Palace Cars or "hotels on wheels", "Hotel Car Bill of Fare" (menu), wine list, and price for various Pullman car trips with related information.
Author : Larry Tye
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466818751
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Rising from the Rails written by Larry Tye and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A valuable window into a long-underreported dimension of African American history."—Newsday An engaging social history that reveals the critical role Pullman porters played in the struggle for African American civil rights When George Pullman began recruiting Southern blacks as porters in his luxurious new sleeping cars, the former slaves suffering under Jim Crow laws found his offer of a steady job and worldly experience irresistible. They quickly signed up to serve as maid, waiter, concierge, nanny, and occasionally doctor and undertaker to cars full of white passengers, making the Pullman Company the largest employer of African American men in the country by the 1920s. In the world of the Pullman sleeping car, where whites and blacks lived in close proximity, porters developed a unique culture marked by idiosyncratic language, railroad lore, and shared experience. They called difficult passengers "Mister Charlie"; exchanged stories about Daddy Jim, the legendary first Pullman porter; and learned to distinguish generous tippers such as Humphrey Bogart from skinflints like Babe Ruth. At the same time, they played important social, political, and economic roles, carrying jazz and blues to outlying areas, forming America's first black trade union, and acting as forerunners of the modern black middle class by virtue of their social position and income. Drawing on extensive interviews with dozens of porters and their descendants, Larry Tye reconstructs the complicated world of the Pullman porter and the vital cultural, political, and economic roles they played as forerunners of the modern black middle class. Rising from the Rails provides a lively and enlightening look at this important social phenomenon. • Named a Recommended Book by The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Seattle Times
Author : Jack Kelly
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250128862
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Edge of Anarchy written by Jack Kelly and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pay attention, because The Edge of Anarchy not only captures the flickering Kinetoscopic spirit of one of the great Labor-Capital showdowns in American history, it helps focus today’s great debates over the power of economic concentration and the rights and futures of American workers." —Brian Alexander, author of Glass House "In gripping detail, The Edge of Anarchy reminds us of what a pivotal figure Eugene V. Debs was in the history of American labor... a tale of courage and the steadfast pursuit of principles at great personal risk." —Tom Clavin, New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for America. The Edge of Anarchy by Jack Kelly offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history. At the pinnacle of the Gilded Age, a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars by hundreds of thousands of railroad employees brought commerce to a standstill across much of the country. Famine threatened, riots broke out along the rail lines. Soon the U.S. Army was on the march and gunfire rang from the streets of major cities. This epochal tale offers fascinating portraits of two iconic characters of the age. George Pullman, who amassed a fortune by making train travel a pleasure, thought the model town that he built for his workers would erase urban squalor. Eugene Debs, founder of the nation’s first industrial union, was determined to wrench power away from the reigning plutocrats. The clash between the two men’s conflicting ideals pushed the country to what the U.S. Attorney General called “the ragged edge of anarchy.” Many of the themes of The Edge of Anarchy could be taken from today’s headlines—upheaval in America’s industrial heartland, wage stagnation, breakneck technological change, and festering conflict over race, immigration, and inequality. With the country now in a New Gilded Age, this look back at the violent conflict of an earlier era offers illuminating perspectives along with a breathtaking story of a nation on the edge.
Author : Liston E. Leyendecker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870813375
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Palace Car Prince written by Liston E. Leyendecker and published by . This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lucius Beebe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Mr. Pullman's Elegant Palace Car written by Lucius Beebe and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The evidence is overwhelming that George M. Pullman was, in his day, the foremost prophet of the good life and loomed largest among the opulent carbuilders in the general imagination. In the long light of history Pullman will be remembered as the man who put the American people on wheels, and also as the greatest single agency in the spread and appreciation of luxury on an almost universal scale. At the height of his fabulous career, George Pullman could boast that his guests occupid 260,000 beds every night in the year and that the total registration in his guest book came to 26,000,000 every twelve months. He maintained clerks at 2,950 registration desks for the sole purpose of assigning guests to room and dormitory space."--Inside cover of jacket
Author : Ralph L. Barger
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (87 download)
Download or read book A Century of Pullman Cars: Alphabetical list written by Ralph L. Barger and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pullman's Palace Car Company
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Pullman Palace Car Co written by Pullman's Palace Car Company and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes excerpts of newspaper articles re: the convenience and comfort of traveling via Pullman's Palace Cars or "hotels on wheels", "Hotel Car Bill of Fare" (menu), wine list, and price list for various Pullman car trips with related information.
Author : Pullman's Palace Car Company
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Pullman's Palace Hotel Cars are Run Daily on the Omaha & California Trains of the Chicago & North-Western Railway written by Pullman's Palace Car Company and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Almont Lindsey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226483835
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book The Pullman Strike written by Almont Lindsey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1943-12-15 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pullman Strike of 1894 threatened an entire nation with social and economic upheaval. Describing both its immediate results in business and its far-reaching effects on trade unionism, the author treats the dramatic story of the strike no as an isolated conflict, but as a culminating explosion in labor-capital relations. Woven into the narrative is the rise and decline of the extraordinary Pullman experiment. To all outward appearances a philanthropic project conceived by a generous employer for his employees, the "model town" of George Pullman developed into a kind of medieval barony, operated with an iron hand. This experiment is carefully traced in all its varying aspects, with emphasis on its contribution to the origin of the strike.
Author : Lucius Morris Beebe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mr. Pullman's elegant palace car, the railway carriage that established a written by Lucius Morris Beebe and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joe Welsh
Publisher : Crestline Books
ISBN 13 : 9780785832393
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (323 download)
Download or read book The Cars of Pullman written by Joe Welsh and published by Crestline Books. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's greatest business enterprises, the Pullman Company provided outstanding service aboard a vast fleet of railroad passenger cars that could be found in almost every nook and cranny of the United States. This illustrated history examines Pullman's diverse fleet, from its spectacular custom-built wooden cars of the nineteenth century to steel heavyweight cars in the prewar years and on into the lightweight streamlined era. Pullman cars are a tribute to a hard-working generation of men and women who worked to bring the coasts of the United States together efficiently and in style. Author Joe Welsh includes period photos, many in rare color, as well as car diagrams and ads that help trace the development, composition, and evolution of the historically and culturally significant Pullman fleet, including the gamut of sleeper, parlor, and restaurant cars. Take an interesting look into the time period that relied on train cars, as well as the classic style of the cars themselves. This is a fitting tribute to the former cultural icons aboard which strode giants of American life, such as Babe Ruth and Clark Gable, as well as first-time travelers from small-town America.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Railway Storekeeper written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
