Mar 30, 2017 - Sale 2441

Sale 2441 - Lot 357A

Unsold
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(LABOR.) PULLMAN PORTERS. International Railway Correspondence Institute. Long folio sheet with endorsements from the business world etc, and a separate sheet with endorsements from a couple of Pullman Porters who have graduated, from and received jobs through this correspondence school. Indianapolis, circa 1920

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As employment opportunities like the Pullman Porter positions opened up for African Americans, there were those who saw a perfect way to make money by associating themselves with those opportunities. The IRCI was a perfect example. The Pullman Porter Company would have trained its own employees.