An early Pullman sleeping car American Science and Invention The holiday season just started and, like many of you, I’ve already spent way too much time in crowded airports, cramped airplane ...

George Pullman was one of Chicago’s greatest industrialists, ... The onetime Colorado gold broker developed the “palace car” sleeper in 1864, which brought luxury to the middle class, ...

The party invited by GEORGE M. PULLMAN, the proprietor of the Palace Sleeping Cars, to test the practicability of establishing a line of hotel cars between New York and the Rocky Mountains, left ...

in 1865, a train carried the President's body from Washington D.C. to Springfield, Illinois. Behind the funeral procession, a Pullman sleeping car offered comfortable quarters for several dignitaries.

Pullman Palace Car Co. Donor Pullman-Standard Names Lincoln, Robert Todd Pullman, George M., 1831-1897 Topic Freight cars Railroads -- Dining-car service Roomette car Hospital cars Dining cars Hotel ...

In 1867, just two years after the Civil War, Pullman, a Chicago business owner, began hiring Black men to serve white passengers in his company’s luxury railroad sleeping cars. Pullman’s ...

On Pullman sleeping cars, the team of black porters and maids catered to passengers' every whim. - Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and George Pullman hired them.

A. Philip Randolph set the stage for the Civil Rights movement by forming and leading the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925, which 10 years later became the first African American labor ...

Pullman sleeping cars’ high-quality customer service required porters to tote luggage, serve food, shine shoes, wake passengers, clean berths, make beds, comfort crying babies and perform myriad ...