Does anyone know of a source for Pullman builder's photos? I am specifically looking for shots of a sereies of coaches built for the Colorado & Southern around 1906.

Jason Midyette

amjm@indra.com

> Does anyone know of a source for Pullman
> builder's photos?

The Pullman Library, which is under the control of the Illinois Railway Museum, has the archives of the Pullman Car Company

The Pullman Library
robsterne@hotmail.com

Jason,

The California State Railroad Museum has a large collection of Pullman builders photos and information.

Taylor

thrush@smt-net.com

The Smithsonian has a very large collection of Pullman Negatives. It reports it has over 13,000 negatives taken mainly between 1888 and 1932. These include passenger and freight cars.

I last saw a list of catalogs of this and other railroad photo collections was back in 1995. I don't know what the current prices of these catalogs, etc.

Suggest that you contact:
Rail Photographs
Division of Transporation
National MUsuem of American History
NMAH-510?MRC 628
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C. 20560

I could not find a mention of the Pullman photos at the Smithsonian website.


bnorden@gateway.net

The Pullman Library at IRM consists largely of Pullman drawings, only, with few if any photos. The process of indexing and preserving these drawings is ongoing. As a PS I believe the freight car drawings and information went to what is now Trinity Industries when they purchased the patents and designs for the freight car business.

The Pullman Library is accessable only by appointment, well in advance, at this time due to the busy schedules of the volunteers manning this dept at IRM. We may not be of much help in locating photos of the cars in question.


68trolley@home.com

> Does anyone know of a source for Pullman
> builder's photos? I am specifically looking
> for shots of a sereies of coaches built for
> the Colorado & Southern around 1906.

> Jason Midyette

The Newberry Library in Chicago has a large collection of Pullman archival materials including records, photos, specifications of individual cars. See this link for collection description:

http://www.newberry.org/nl/collections/L3cdesc.html

Good hunting!

Vern

Newberry Library Collections
vglover@starpower.net

Perhaps this list will help answer your question as to the locations of surviving Pullman material:

1. Pullman Negative Collection. Approx. 13,000 negatives of passenger and freight cars, from which prints may be ordered. A video disc is also available, as is a negative catalogue. Source: Smithsonian Institution, Division of the History of Technology, Transportation Collections, NMAH Room 5010, Washington, DC 20560;

2. General Information on Pullman manufacturing at various locations; World War II plants, traction, trolleys, ship division, advertising, post-1932 photographs, etc. Write: Bombardier Corp., Expressway I-95 Business Center, 3684 Meadow lane, Bensalem, PA 19020-5914;

3. Mechanical drawings for Pullman cars (deposit from Bombardier?) Contact: Illinois Railway Museum, P.O. Box 431, Union, IL 60180;

4. Architectural drawings of Pullman housing and shops. Art Institute of Chicago, Burnham Library, South Michigan Avenue & East Adams, Chicago, IL 60614;

5. Pullman Family Collection and misc. Pullman Co. information and photographs. Chicago Historical Society, 1601 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60614;

6. Pullman Collection. Company photographs, employee records and misc. information. Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610;

7. Employee records. Pullman-Standard Co., Chicago plant. Records ca.1900-1949. South Suburban Genealogical & Historical Society, 320 E. 161st Place, P.O. Box 96, South Holland, IL 60473;

8. Information on George M. Pullman - the man and the town. See Palace Car Prince by Liston E. Leyendecker, University Press of Colorado, 1992, hardcover.

9. Some drawings and post-1932 Pullman photos. Pullman Technology, 16412 Lathrop Avenue, Harvey, IL 60426.

10. MG-393, Records from Pullman-Standard Manufacturing Co., of Butler, PA. Includes production line photos, c.1942-1981. Employees are shown producing Pullman cars, making shell casings during WWII, and attending retirees' picnics, 1963-65. Most persons are unidentified. Contact Pennsylvania State Archives, P.O. Box 1026, Harrisburg, PA 17108.

Source: Historic Pullman Foundation, Chicago, IL.

> The Newberry Library in Chicago has a large
> collection of Pullman archival materials
> including records, photos, specifications of
> individual cars. See this link for
> collection description:

>
> http://www.newberry.org/nl/collections/L3cdesc.html

> Good hunting!

> Vern


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