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The roots of the Brotherhood’s struggle extend back to industrialist George Pullman and his vision for luxury rail travel. In the late 1860s, Pullman began developing kitted-out sleeper cars replete ...

What a difference a few years would make. In 1865, George Pullman would introduce his revolutionary Palace cars. Finally passengers, for an extra two dollars, could ride in style, comforted by ...

In 1865, engineer and industrialist George Pullman ushered in a new era of comfort with his Pullman sleepers, or “palace cars,” and then launching a “hotel on wheels,” called the President ...

Truckers' protest poster The increasing influence of the federal government over the economy has led many Americans to expect ...

George Pullman, who founded the company, hired architect Solon S. Beman and landscape architect Nathan F. Barrett to design the town and factory complex. Now, years after being smitten by the ...

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The first railroad sleeping car, designed by George Pullman, appears in the United States. When one of Pullman's cars is attached to the funeral train carrying Abraham Lincoln's body in April ...

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Glenn Horowitz built a fortune selling the archives of writers such as Vladimir Nabokov and Alice Walker. Then a rock star ...

George Barbier was a French illustrator and costume designer. Born Georges Augustin Barbier in 1882 in Nantes, France, he was part of an influential group of early 20th-century artists that included ...