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Our Slogan- Service, not Servitude, 1926

A broadside advertising a demonstration meeting at St Luke’s Hall in Harlem organized by the Pullman Porters – calling all porters and maids to…

To All Pullman Porters and Maids, 1934

A 1934 broadside inviting participation and advertising the benefits of the BSCP Union. The meeting was to discuss the Brother Case with the Mediation…

The Itching Palm, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33170/33170-h/33170-h.htm#vii, accessed 1916

Online Gutenberg Ebook of the William Scott's Study of the Habits of Tipping in America

Marriage record of Alfred E. Simms and Sarah Burch, Missouri State Marriage Jefferson City, MO, USA: Missouri State Archives. Microfilm., 1915

Alfred E Simms married Sarah Burch in 1915 in St Joseph Missouri. Includes the marriage application, the marriage license and the marriage…

Tags: Alfred Simms, Pullman Porters

Mason Todd

Feed Sack. Gooch Feed Mill Co. Lincoln Ne., Nebraska State Historical Society

Image of a feed sack from the Gooch Feed Mill Co. in Lincoln Nebraska. Made from fabric. These were often recycled to make dresses and other clothes.

George H. Saunders

Lincoln-Dining Car Chef, https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/digital/collection/nby_rrlife/id/514/rec/365, accessed 1948

Railroad Chef leaning out of the doorway of a train car.

Nebraska Cafe-Parlor Car, Green, Allen Ayrault, 1880-1963, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, 1900-1910

Photo of a Parlor Car of a Burlington Train at a station in the Midwest.

Tags: Pullman Porters, Railways

Burlington Route Map. 1923, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, 1923

Burlington Route map showing the routes traveling through Lincoln , Ne.

Tags: Pullman Porters, Railways