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One more port of entry...Pullman mostly gets seen through a particular historical context. Alt Pullman is tending to another way of seeing... (See long)
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Pullman mostly gets seen through a very particular historical context. Alt Pullman is tending to another way of seeing. The intent is not to distract from Pullmans history but is instead to share what makes this place so alive and enchanting despite it. Your personal response to this inquiry (what you love, what you see, who you are here) would be greatly appreciated. We are just ge

tting started and it will always be a work in progress. We encourage multiple perspectives and hope to include the many "histories of Pullman", as well as point to some of the whimsey and irony that makes this incredibly interesting and multi-layered place work.

1. "The first two important truths of postmodernism [that we construct reality and that meaning is context-dependent] mean a multiperspective approach to reality is called for."
- Ken Wilber, The Marriage of Sense and Soul, p. 124-125

2. “The collage technique, that art of reassembling fragments of preexisting images in such a way as to form a new image, is the most important innovation in the art of this century. Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen, or recognized.”
-Charles Simic, Dime-Store Alchemy

3. “…the Water Genie told Haroun about the Ocean of the Streams of Story, and even though he was full of a sense of hopelessness and failure the magic of the Ocean began to have an effect on Haroun. He looked into the water and saw that it was made up of a thousand thousand thousand and one different currents, each one different currents, each one a different color, weaving in and out of one another like a liquid tapestry of breathtaking complexity: and [the Water Genie] explained that these were the Streams of Story, that each colored strand represented and contained a single tale. Different parts of the Ocean contained different sorts of stories, and as all the stories that had ever been told and many that were still in the process of being invented could be found here, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was in fact the biggest library in the universe. And because the stories were held here in fluid form, they retained the ability to change, to become new versions of themselves, to join up with other stories and so become yet other stories…”
- Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie (27 Sep 1990)"

10/01/2024

Come walk the streets and see inside of the houses and buildings that make up this remarkable place during this years 51th Historic Pullman House Tour - Oct 12th and 13th, 2024

See the Pullman Strike exhibit at the Historic Pullman Foundation Exhibition hall, and the Visitor Center at the Pullman National Historical Park Clock Tower. Even The Hotel Florence will be open!

From the conception of the town... the construction, The architects, the Pullman Strike and Eugene V. Debs, The Illinois Supreme Court order forcing Pullman Company to sell off the company town, The Lincoln years, The Pullman Porters and civil rights story, Saving this place from the wrecking ball... to it's current status as National Park and home to a diverse population from 103rd street to 115th street. This place stands remarkable in so many big ways... and if you dig a little, it is one of America's most telling stories that is still unfolding.

Below is an early (not too flattering) critique of Pullman's Town from an 1885 article in Harper's Monthly Magazine...

https://archive.org/details/8502ElyPullmanasocialstudy/page/n2/mode/1up

Historic Pullman Annual House Tours

Pullman: A Social Study, by Richard T. ElyIllustrations by C. Mente from Architect's plans.Harper's Monthly Magazine, vol. 70, whole no. 417 (Feb. 1885), pp....

09/28/2024

Originally named "The Henry George School" until the President of the Pullman Bank started a petition to change the name from Henry George to George Pullman. Jane Addams was in firm disagreement with the name change and fought it to no avail. Even today there are folks that try to lionize George.

08/29/2024

Saul Schniderman is inviting you to watch this film about Mother Jones--free of charge, due to his generosity. It is on demand screening of “Fight Like Hell” for a limited time over Labor Day Weekend: for 72 hours--August 30-September 2, 2024. Access the film here and copy and paste the password: https://vimeopro.com/bullfrogfilms/fridayslaborfolklore-fightlikehell
Password: FLFF1GHT (best to copy and paste)

08/21/2024

After the Pullman Strike of 1894 Eugene V. Debs went on to run for president five times.… Below is the first page of the 1912 platform...

"The Socialist party declares that the capitalist system has outgrown its historical function. and has become utterly incapable of meeting the problems now confronting society. We denounce this outgrown system as incompetent and corrupt and the source of unspeakable misery to the whole working class.

Under this system the industrial equipment of the nation has passed into the absolute control of plutocracy, which exacts an annual tribute of hundreds of millions of dollars from the producers. Unafraid of any organized resistance, it stretches out its greedy hands over the still undeveloped resources of the nation-the land, the mines, the forests and water-powers of every state in the union.

In spite of the multiplication of labor-saving machines and improved methods in industry, which cheapen the cost of production, the share of the producers grows ever less.
and the prices of all the necessities of life steadily increase. The boasted prosperity of this nation is for the owning class alone. To the rest it means only greater hardship and misery. The high cost of living is felt in every home. Millions of wage-workers have seen the purchasing power of their wages decrease until life has become a desperate battle for mere existence.

Multitudes of unemployed walk the streets of our cities of trudge from state to state awaiting the will of the masters to move the wheels of industry.

The farmers in every state are plundered by the increasing prices exacted for tools and machinery and by extortionate rent, freight rates and storage charges.

Capitalist concentration is mercilessly crushing the class of small business men and driving its members into the ranks of propertyless wage-workers. The overwhelming majority of the people of America are being forced under a yoke of bo***ge by this soulless industrial despotism.

It is this capitalist system that is responsible for the increasing burden of armaments, the poverty, slums, child labor, most of the insanity, crime and prostitution, and much of the disease that afflicts mankind.

Under this system the working class is exposed to poisonous conditions, to frightful and needless perils to life and limb, is walled around court decisions, injunctions and injunctions and unjust laws, and is preyed upon incessantly for the benefit of the controlling oligarchy of wealth. Under it also, the children of the working class are doomed to ignorance, drudging toil and darkened lives.

In the face of these evils, so manifest that all thoughtful observers are appalled at them, the legislative representatives of the Republican and Democratic parties remain the faithful servants of the oppressors. Measures designed to secure to the wage earners of this nation as humane and just treatment as is already enjoyed by the wage earners of all other civilized nations have been smothered in committee without debate, and laws ostensibly designed to bring relief to the farmers and general consumers are juggled and transformed into instru-…"

08/20/2024

Great tour guide and neighbor. Ask for Roderick by name!

Our guided home tours offer an immersive experience, taking visitors through historically recreated homes from the 19th and 20th centuries. These homes belonged to immigrant and migrant families who were employed by the Pullman Company and resided in the historic town. Led by seasoned educators, our 60–75-minute tours vividly bring history to life, weaving together the narratives of ordinary people from generations past. Learn more about how Pullman residents saved the community from demolition in 1960 on our guided tours. Get your tickets online or at the register at our Welcome Center. https://pullmanhouseproject.eventbrite.com

08/20/2024

Pullman National Historical Park is featured!

10 Things To Do in Chicago That Aren't Taking Pictures at the Bean—and Don't Involve Giving Money to Large Corporations

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If you're coming to Chicago for the Democratic National Convention or live here and want to know more about your city, forget The Bean and check out these important spots.

08/14/2024

I thought I recognized that image... (see comments)

In the 1890s, for Pullman residents, the kitchen was the warmest room in the home. Often, cots were set up around the stove to keep residents warm overnight. This rendering, published in the Chicago Tribune on March 9, 1893, depicts the interior of a kitchen in a Pullman house along Champlain Avenue. See inside historic Pullman homes on our guided tours. Ticket sales for our 1:00 p.m. tour close at Noon. Get your tickets online or at the register at our Welcome Center. https://pullmanhouseproject.eventbrite.com

07/25/2024

Come see the Gumball Project and the Historic Pullman Foundation's 130th anniversary Strike exhibit!

07/18/2024

Learn more about the gumball project...

https://jbdaniel.com/gumball.html

07/18/2024

Today!! At Noon!! The Pullman Mansion!!! Click here!!
Join our Executive Director and Curator, William Tyre, at noon today, when he will give a 20-minute online presentation about the Pullman mansion, which stood at 1729 S. Prairie Avenue, catty corner to the Glessner House. The free presentation is being offered for the Pullman National Historical Park. No registration is required, just click on this Zoom link to join in at noon: https://zoom.us/j/92422038830

07/15/2024

“I have said that Mr. Pullman's decisions were final. That was true, but there are exceptions to all rules, and I will pause to tell of an incident where he was influenced to countermand his own orders. A competent workman in the shops had rigged out an old buggy with a gasoline engine and a chain drive on the rear axle- the progenitor of our modern automobile- and secured the consent of Mr. Pullman to inspect the device. It was a sultry day in midsummer, with a broiling sun overhead. Mr. Pullman came out on a train from the city, getting off at 111th street, where he was met at the station by the inventor. Together they got into the horseless vehicle, and rode up to the north end of the works at about 103d street, when the gasoline gave out or something happened to interfere with the working of the engine which, up to that time, had been doing very well. The inventor being unable to start it again, Mr. Pullman looked about for means of getting back to the hotel on 111th street. A telephone call to the stable revealed the fact that all the conveyances were out that afternoon in attendance at a funeral, and there was no conveyance to be had, so he had to set out on foot through the heat and dust. As he walked he became warmer, and as his temperature arose, his temper went with it. Every man who crossed his path felt his displeasure, and by the time he reached the hotel he had bodily fired a number of employees, including some at the hotel. As he sat on the veranda of the hotel sipping cold lemonade while waiting for his train, he cooled off perceptibly; and as he was leaving the hotel to take the train, he rather sheepishly said to his fiscal agent in Pullman: “I had occasion today to order the discharge of several employees; please see that the order is held in abeyance until you hear from me further in reference to it." And that closed the incident.”

-One Hundred Years in Illinois, Mclean

07/12/2024

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07/11/2024

When in NJ

The museum hosts a free lending library open to the public. Books, audio and video cassettes can be borrowed for 3 weeks. You can search our catalog at https://labormuseumlibrary.librarika.com/

07/01/2024

Gumball Project - Now on exhibit

Historic Pullman Foundation Exhibit Hall: Thursday, Friday, Saturday 11-4 and Sunday 12 - 4. Through the end of the year.
(in concert with the Pullman Strike exhibit)

“Camaraderie” (a sister piece in the gumball project) is on exhibit at the Pullman National Historical Park clock tower. Hours: 9 to 5 - 7 days a week. Through August

Shown: "Debs - The American Dream (for everyone)"

More about the Gumball Project: https://jbdaniel.com/gumballproject.html

06/29/2024

Gumball Project - Now on exhibit

Historic Pullman Foundation Exhibit Hall: Thursday, Friday, Saturday 11-4 and Sunday 12 - 4. Through the end of the year.
(in concert with the Pullman Strike exhibit)

“Camaraderie” (a sister piece in the gumball project) is on exhibit at the Pullman National Historical Park clock tower. Hours: 9 to 5 - 7 days a week. Through August

More about the Gumball Project: https://jbdaniel.com/gumballproject.html

06/28/2024

Built in 1880 and standing strong 144 years later, q***r people have always been a part of Pullman.

It’s difficult to imagine what the lives of LGBTQ+ people may have been like in the earliest days of the town, where reputation ruled. Societal limitations and laws would have forced most q***r people to exist quietly, or in secret. As a result, many early LGBTQ+ Pullman stories are lost.

This Pride, we honor past and present LGBTQ+ Pullman residents. 🌈

The National Park Service is devoted to preserving, protecting, and telling all Americans’ stories. Discover contributions of the LGBTQ+ community to the nation's history at: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/tellingallamericansstories/lgbtqheritage.htm

Image: A pride flag being held in front of the Pullman National Historical Park Visitor Center
Image Credit: NPS Image

06/27/2024

Florence and Frank...

06/26/2024

06/25/2024

Chicago has always been a hotbed of politics and Pullman was no different. Especially right before WW II as the world was about to erupt.

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Our Story

Pullman mostly gets seen through a single constructed narrative.

While we admire the attempt to create a single narrative… what we, and so many others, find most fascinating, is Pullman in all its complexity. Obama’s proclamation (designating The Pullman historic district a National Monument) includes: Pullman Town as a grand failed industrialist experiment and the innovative housing it created and left behind as an exemplar of urban planning… Eugene V. Debs and the 1894 Pullman strike’s impact on our nations labor history… and A. Philip Randolph and The Pullman Porters struggle. With these stories and the many lessons learned from what worked here, and just as, if not more importantly, what didn’t. We are striving to bring this grand experiment from the past into the present, as a place not only to explore its many histories, but to embrace a multi-perspective view of possibilities for the future.

1. "The first two important truths of postmodernism [that we construct reality and that meaning is context-dependent] mean a multiperspective approach to reality is called for." - Ken Wilber, The Marriage of Sense and Soul, p. 124-125 2. “The collage technique, that art of reassembling fragments of preexisting images in such a way as to form a new image, is the most important innovation in the art of this century. Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen, or recognized.” -Charles Simic, Dime-Store Alchemy 3. “…the Water Genie told Haroun about the Ocean of the Streams of Story, and even though he was full of a sense of hopelessness and failure the magic of the Ocean began to have an effect on Haroun. He looked into the water and saw that it was made up of a thousand thousand thousand and one different currents, each one different currents, each one a different color, weaving in and out of one another like a liquid tapestry of breathtaking complexity: and [the Water Genie] explained that these were the Streams of Story, that each colored strand represented and contained a single tale. Different parts of the Ocean contained different sorts of stories, and as all the stories that had ever been told and many that were still in the process of being invented could be found here, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was in fact the biggest library in the universe. And because the stories were held here in fluid form, they retained the ability to change, to become new versions of themselves, to join up with other stories and so become yet other stories…” - Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie (27 Sep 1990)" 4. The community is everyone! Not just like minded people. Play nice. Help each other.