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Pullman Train Booklet

Specifications

Pullman Train Booklet

Category

World's Fairs

Classification

CHENHALL - Communication Objects - Advertising Media - Brochure

Object Origin
Producer:

The Pullman Company

Date Manufactured:

1933

Physical Characteristics

Object Description: Stapled booklet with a colored drawing on the front and the text "PULLMAN FACTS NO. 8 / THE HIDDEN MECHANISMS OF A PULLMAN CAR" in blue. Pages have a horizontal orientation. Booklet contains ten (10) pages with information about the Pullman car, including diagrams and images. On the back of the booklet is text about purchasing Pullman tickets and other booklets published in the series.

Materials:

paper

Measurements: Object:
    Length: 6.125 in, Width: 3.375 in
    Weight: 0.015 lbs

Credit

Gift of Howard Rossen, 1993.44.3h

Display Status

Not On View

Pullman Train Booklet

About: Pullman Train Booklet

About: Pullman Train Booklet

This Pullman booklet, “Hidden Mechanism of the Pullman Car,” is number eight in a series of twelve booklets highlighting information about the Pullman Company. Pullman Company was founded by George Pullman (1831 – 1897) in 1867. The company used paper car wheels, invented by Richard Allen (1827 – 1890), providing train travelers a quieter and smoother ride than conventional cast iron wheels. Paper car wheels were railway car wheels made with a steel rim and an iron hub with an interlayer of laminated paper. The company started building luxury sleeper cars with carpeting, draperies, upholstered chairs, card tables, and offered unparalleled customer service to train travelers. By 1933, over 9,500 Pullman cars covered the railway system.


During the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition, the Travel and Transportation Building included a Pullman company display. The exhibit presented one of the first Pullman first sleeper cars, “Old Number 9,” and its newest car, “George M. Pullman.” Remodeled from a Chicago and Alton day coach, the “Old Number 9” had plush seats, heat by stoves, sleeping berths, kerosene lamps, and was the model of luxury in its day. The company’s newest all-aluminum sleeping car, “George M. Pullman,” represented three years of research and design and offered new features in temperature control and air filter quality. The Pullman Company became so well known for their sleeper cars that many people referred a sleeper car as a Pullman. 

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