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Featured This Month: Railroads

The Night Train, Every Saturday, pg. 729. A5.315 vol. #9.

Pullman: Labor, Race, and the Urban Landscape in a Company Town

This exhibit situates Pullman within a broad narrative, exploring how the neighborhood illuminates the centrality of labor, race, and urban development in the history of industrial America.

Twentieth Century Transportation. 1910. Temp Map 4F G3701.P1 1910Y2.

Railroad Archives

The collecting of large corporate archives at the Newberry was initiated in 1943 by Librarian Stanley Pargellis, who advocated the acquisition of records of Midwestern enterprises that contained materials for social and intellectual history as well as business history.

Pullman Car Interior. Box #16 Folder #723.

Pullman Digital Collection

This online Pullman Collection contains more than 1,600 Pullman Company car drawings, ca. 1870-1969.

Russell Lee, Chicago Skyline and the 14th Street Passenger Yards, May 1948. CBQGR206.jpg

Everywhere West

The “Everywhere West” digital exhibit is based on an exhibition staged at the Newberry August 10 to October 16, 2010. It contains a selection of unique black-and-white photographs portraying the lives of Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad workers and the communities spawned by the company’s sprawling rail network.

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Digital Resources

Civil War in Art

This project aims to provide a more complete understanding of the complex nexus of issues, events, and people that contributed to the causes and effects of the Civil War.

Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North

To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the US Civil War and in conjunction with the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Newberry Library mounted the exhibition, “Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North” in September of 2013.

Pullman: Labor, Race, and the Urban Landscape in a Company Town

This exhibit situates Pullman within a broad narrative, exploring how the neighborhood illuminates the centrality of labor, race, and urban development in the history of industrial America.

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