Browse Items (19 total)
- Collection: Newspapers
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, The Way To Go To California
University of Nebraska-Lincoln 1900, The Way To Go To California, Courier Pub. Co.
Article in the LIncoln Courier. Describes the way to travel to California taking the Burlington Train Route. The train leaves Omaha and travels…
Tags: Newspapers, Pullman Porters
The Voice. (1946-19530 Lincoln, Nebraska.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/2019270505/
1946-1953, The Voice. (1946-19530 Lincoln, Nebraska.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/2019270505/, Shakespeare, Melvin L
This is the complete run of The Voice newspaper (Scanned PDF's of all pages in each issue. ). This was a weekly African American newspaper published…
How Would You Like to Be -- George has many duties.
1920, How Would You Like to Be -- George has many duties., Edward Rosewater
Article in the Omaha Sunday Bee exploring the many duties of the Pullman Porter. As a composite detective, doctor, trainman and valet the article…
Tags: Journal, Pullman Porters
Men Who Make the Berths: Some of the Veteran Pullman Porters on the Union Pacific
1896, Men Who Make the Berths: Some of the Veteran Pullman Porters on the Union Pacific, Edward Rosewater
A note of appreciation to the longest serving Pullman Porters. Superintendent Richard made a report of the eight oldest porters. This article is a…
Tags: Journal, Pullman Porters
Nicks in the Boot Heels: How Pullman Porters pass on Information Regarding Travelers.
1894, Nicks in the Boot Heels: How Pullman Porters pass on Information Regarding Travelers., Edward Rosewater
The article reveals how the porters hide messages in the shoe heals of their customers to inform other porters of the personality of the customer. A…
Tags: Journal, Pullman Porters
Alfred Simms Retirement Commendations
Alfred Simms Retirement Commendations, 1949
Newspaper clipping from the Voice newspaper, reporting the retirement of Alfred E. Simms retired from a 30 year career as a Pullman car chair porter,…
Pullman Conductors and Porters Organize
1914, Pullman Conductors and Porters Organize
News item in the 1914 Day Book outlining the unfair treatment and salary of the Pullman Porters. In 1914 a car port received $27.50 a month while…
Pullman Company Will Not Arbitrate in Porters FIght
Pullman Company Will Not Arbitrate in Porters FIght, 19 August, 1927
In 1927, a letter from Edwin P. Morrow in the Omaha Monitor, exposing the pullman company refuses to arbitrate with the porters, although they had…
Score Pullman Strike Betrayal
Score Pullman Strike Betrayal
Statement of the Central Executive of the Workers (Communist) Party accusing the Brotherhood leaders of not standing up against race segregation in…