Train car sign from the Pullman Company used by Thomas McCord: Museum Object and Cultural History
Train car sign from the Pullman Company used by Thomas McCord: Date: ca. 1943. Created by: Pullman Palace Car Company, American, 1867 - 1969. Subject of: Thomas McCord, American, 1886 - 1967.
The object in the museum catalogue
A train car sign from the Pullman Company. The sign has a dark navy background with off-white and black type that reads: [THIS CAR IS SERVED BY / T. McCORD / PORTER / THE PULLMAN COMPANY].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1943
- Created by: Pullman Palace Car Company, American, 1867 - 1969
- Subject of: Thomas McCord, American, 1886 - 1967
- Type: information signs
- Medium: cardboard
- Dimensions: H x W: 3 x 5 in. (7.6 x 12.7 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Associations and institutions
- Topic: Labor
- Topic: Professional organizations
- Topic: Pullman Porters
- Topic: Transportation
- Object number: 2010.31.8
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Kenneth Victor Young in memory of Thomas McCord, Louisville, Kentucky
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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