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A long hard journey : the story of the Pullman porter / by Patricia and Frederick McKissack.
- Text
- New York : Walker, 1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 90-8 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Facts behind the railroad's 10 [cents] bag fee : copy of letter from wage and hour administrator, Philip B. Fleming, to Senator Elbert D. Thomas, chairman of the Senate Committee on Education and Labor.
- Text
- Chicago : Educational Dept., United Transport Service Employees of America, [1940?]
- 1979-1940
An Interview with Mr. Samuel Beasley/ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interviewed by Joseph Wilson.
- Moving image
- 1989-06-28.
- 1989
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1504 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters collection, 1939-1987.
- Mixed material
- 1939-1987
- 6 Items
Available Online
http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20599Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 250 Box 4 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 250 Box 5 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 250 Box 6 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Oral history interview with Lexius H. Harper / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interview conducted by Joseph Wilson.
- Moving image
- New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1989.
- 1989-629
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1185 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
An Interview with Alfred A. Hoggard, Jr./ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interviewed by Joseph Wilson.
- Moving image
- 1989-06-22.
- 1989
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1527 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
An interview with Paul Johnson / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interviewed by Joseph Wilson.
- Moving image
- New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1989.
- 1989-628
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1346 Disc 1 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1346 Disc 2 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Luther S. Thomas papers, 1951-1954.
- Mixed material
- 1951-1954
- 1 Item
Available Online
http://archives.nypl.org/scm/21166Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 370 box 1 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Wesley Williams papers, 1909-1984, 1919-1984.
- Mixed material
- 1909-1984
- 3 Items
Available Online
http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20796Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 379 Box 1 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 379 Box 2 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 379 Box 3 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
[Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters New Orleans Division meeting] [sound recording]
- Audio
- [1952-1962]
- 1952-1962
[A. Philip Randolph and Ben McLaurin discuss job stabilization on the railroad] [sound recording]
- Audio
- [1952-1962]
- 1952-1962
[Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 28th Anniversary Meeting, Los Angeles, 1953] [no. 3] [sound recording]
- Audio
- 1 sound tape reel (52:06 min.) : analog, 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 7 in.
- 1953
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters' meetings [sound recordings]
- Audio
- [1950-1972]
- 1950-1972
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters' meetings [sound recordings]
- Audio
- [1950-1972]
- 1950-1972
Le hall; commentarie sur le service du hall dans les palaces et grands hôtel.
- Text
- Paris, Edité par les "Clefs d'or [1958]
- 1958
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text D-12 1206 no. 1-15 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The porters of London.
- Text
- Longmans [1960]
- 1960
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text D-12 6565 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Epic Peters, Pullman porter, by Octavus Roy Cohen.
- Text
- New York, London, D. Appleton, 1930.
- 1930
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NCW (Cohen, O. R. Epic Peters) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
My name's not George : the story of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters : personal reminiscences of Stanley G. Grizzle / Stanley G. Grizzle with John Cooper.
- Text
- Toronto : Umbrella Press, 1997.
- 1997
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 98-11474 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 98-11474 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The long snake tattoo / Frank Downes.
- Text
- London : Do-Not Press ; Chester Springs, PA : U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions, 1998.
- 1998
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 99-16790 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Pullman porters' review.
- Text
- Chicago, Ill. : Pullman Porters' Pub. Co.
- 1913-1921
- 5 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text SIA+ (Pullman porters' review) v. 4-5 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text SIA+ (Pullman porters' review) v. 6-8 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text SIA+ (Pullman porters' review) v. 9 (Sep 1920-Aug 1921) Offsite The Pullman porter / issued by the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
- Text
- New York : [s.n.], 1926.
- 1926
Bearing the weight : the kayayoo, Ghana's working girl child / Seema Agarwal ... [et al.].
- Text
- Legon, Ghana : Centre for Social Policy Studies, Faculty of Social Studies, University of Ghana, [1997]
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 00-993 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Shadow running : Ray Lewis, Canadian railway porter & Olympic athlete / as told to John Cooper.
- Text
- Toronto, ON : Umbrella Press, 1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 00-9860 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Caravan porters of the Nyika : labour, culture, and society in nineteenth century Tanzania / by Stephen J. Rockel.
- Text
- 1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 01-2183 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Memories of a retired Pullman porter [microform] / Robert E. Turner.
- Text
- New York : Exposition Press, [c1954]
- 1954
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text AN (Turner) (Turner, R. E. Memories of a retired pullman porter) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc B-Turner, R. (Turner, R. Memories of a retired pullman porter) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro R-2992 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters collection, 1937-1991.
- Mixed material
- 1937-1991
- 2 Items
Available Online
http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20886Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 426 box 1 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 426 box 2 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Report of the survey on socio-economic conditions of licensed railway porters at five selected centres.
- Text
- Chandigarh : Govt. of India, Ministry of Labour, Labour Bureau, [2004]
- 2004
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JBF 07-87 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Carriers of culture : labor on the road in nineteenth-century East Africa / by Stephen J. Rockel.
- Text
- Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2006.
- 2006
- 1 Item
Available Online
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip069/2006005584.htmlItem details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 07-805 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
James H. Williams portrait collection [graphic].
- Still image
- 1925-[194-?]
- 1925-194
- 1 Item
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/8903b2c0-c5f1-012f-080d-58d385a7bc34#/?tab=navigation&roots=279:596ae140-cacf-0138-bd64-04ba91f4853bItem details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Williams, James H. Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Milton P. Webster collection, 1956-1969.
- Mixed material
- 1956-1964
- 1 Item
Available Online
http://archives.nypl.org/scm/21190Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 570 Box 1 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Nessun problema : i segreti dei portieri dei grandi alberghi / Nicolò De Rienzo.
- Text
- Torino : Add, c2011.
- 2011
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 12-23310 Offsite Alphonso H. Johnson papers, 1932-1942.
- Mixed material
- 1932-1942
- 2 Items
Available Online
http://archives.nypl.org/scm/21057Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 550 Folder 1 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Not available - Please for assistance.Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 550 Folder 2 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Arthur L. Woolfolk papers, 1949-1967.
- Mixed material
- 1949-1967
- 1 Item
Available Online
http://archives.nypl.org/scm/21201Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 569 Folder 1 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
La storia sulle spalle : i facchini a Modena dal Medioevo ad oggi : l'istituzione del corpo morale e la cooperativa, 40 anni di imprenditoria collettiva della CFP soc. coop / Antonietta Notarangelo, Danilo Bertani, Francesco Totaro.
- Text
- Modena : Artestampa, [2013]
- 2013
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 13-45773 Offsite Elijah Shoemaker papers, 1950-1979.
- Mixed material
- 1937-1991
- 2 Items
Available Online
http://archives.nypl.org/scm/21146Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 571 folder 1 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 571 folder 2 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Indispensable immigrants : the wine porters of northern Italy and their saint, 1200-1800 / Lester K. Little.
- Text
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.
- 2015
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 15-2809 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The conduct and scandalous behaviour of the porters in Exchange Alley. [electronic resource] : To which is added, the heads of a remarkable trial at a Travest Sessions at Guildhall, London, on the twentieth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine. By a Society of twenty impartial inquirers.
- Text
- London : printed for Mrs. Dodd, at the Peacock, opposite St. Clements Church in the Strand; and to be had at Mrs. Nutt's, and Mrs. Cook's at the Royal Exchange; and at most pamphlet shops in town and country, [1750?]
- 1750
- 1 Resource
Available Online
http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=0677501700&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=nyplLaws relating to carts and cartmen, public porters, and handcartmen in the city of New York.
- Text
- New York : Bowne & Co. Printers and Stationers, 1850.
- 1850
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TO p.v. 12 no. 1-8 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Facchinerie : immigrati bergamaschi, valtellinesi e svizzeri nel porto di Livorno : (1602-1847) / Andrea Addobbati.
- Text
- Pisa : Edizioni ETS, [2018]
- 2018
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 19-71857 Offsite Da minha porta, vejo o mundo = Desde mi puerta, veo el mundo / prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro e Secretaria Municipal de Cultura apresentam ; concepção e coordenação editorial = concepción y coordinación editoria, Sylas Andrade ; entrevistas e textos = entrevistas y textos, Aydano André Motta.
- Text
- Rio de Janeiro : Letras & Sons, 2018.
- 2018
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 20-98861 Offsite
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