The Pullman Company never saw them as the skilled, vital workforce that they in fact were. - [Narrator] Porters routinely worked 20-hour shifts several days in a row and were away from their ...

CHICAGO, May 25. -- Officials of the Pullman Company have under consideration a plan for pensioning 15,000 employes of the corporation after a certain age and term of service.

An 1894 advertisement shows the interior of a Pullman dining-car belonging to the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railway. The view through the window depicts the Mosler Safe Company factory in ...

The Pullman Company tried to fire her husband, but she stood up to them. She also founded and became president of the Brotherhood’s International Ladies’ Auxiliary Order, ...

The brothers have lived in Pullman their entire lives, growing up in what was once a company town for the Pullman Railroad Car Company. Both worked at the factory from 1959 until its closure in 1981.

‘Pullman Company Maids’ exhibit captures Black women’s work experience during Jim Crow Long overshadowed by the porter men, the maids were smaller in number.

In 1893 the Pullman Company had about 14,000 employees spread out across the United States. The town of Pullman itself (not exclusively employees) had about 12,600 residents.

George Pullman created a company town for his employees, but it came at a cost for his workers, while benefitting Pullman’s bottom line. Aired 10/06/2023.

"And I remember just being startled. Pullman Company had maids?" Indeed, the Pullman Porters have been well-chronicled: Black men who travelled the country working on the famous Pullman sleeping cars.