Mar 24, 2022 - Sale 2598

Sale 2598 - Lot 293

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(LABOR.) Group of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters working cards and employee ride passes. 22 printed cards completed in typescript and signed by various officials, each about 2 1/2 x 4 inches; most with only minor wear. Various places, 1928-1948
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These cards were issued to Marshall M. Harris, who progressed from waiter to cook to parlor car porter on the Alton Railroad Company and related lines, which ran from Kansas City to Chicago. Included are:

3 working cards from the powerful trade union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, each signed by secretary-treasurer Ernest Smith and bearing the name of president A. Philip Randolph, 1939-1940.

13 employee ride passes issued to Harris by the railroad, some naming him as "colored" and each giving his position, 1928-1948.

6 ride passes issued to his wife Gertrude Harris by the railroad, 1932-1938.