Advertisement for The Pullman Company
- Created by
- Pullman Palace Car Company, American, 1867 - 1969
- Subject of
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- ink on paper (fiber product)
- Dimensions
- H x W: 14 1/8 x 10 1/4 in. (35.9 x 26 cm)
- Description
- Black and white newspaper advertisement for The Pullman Company featuring "A Pullman Captain and his Crew". The advertisement depicts a Pullman captain in the upper right corner looking down at a leather bound book he his holding. Below this image is a group of eight Pullman porters wearing their white uniforms and porter caps as well as one white man in a white uniform and no cap, probably a busboy, and one African American woman, dressed in a maid's uniform. This group of ten Pullman employees are surrounding a man wearing a Pullman conductor uniform and conductor cap with smiles on their faces. Below is a large two paragraph long piece of text that concludes with the following slogan: "Pullman and Rail - The safe way to go and the sure way to get there". On the back of the advertisement is the newspaper feature "Pictures to the Editor".
- Classification
- Memorabilia and Ephemera - Advertisements
- Type
- advertisements
- Topic
- Labor
- Pullman Porters
- Segregation
- Transportation
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2012.46.75.20
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
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