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Description

1. 2 folders

Summary

1. The Alphonso H. Johnson Papers contain personal letters primarily from female friends who lived in Montreal and along the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S., and correspondence relating to his employment with the Pullman Company. There is also some documentation for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.

Subject

1. Man-woman relationships > Correspondence
2. Pullman Company
3. Johnson, Alphonso Henry, 1892- > Correspondence
4. African American labor union members
5. Pullman porters > United States > Correspondence
6. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
7. African American train attendants
8. Correspondence
9. Porters > United States > Correspondence
10. Train attendants > United States > Correspondence
11. Black author

Genre/Form

1. Correspondence.

Call number

1. Sc MG 550

Note

1. Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.

Source (note)

1. 409 Edgecombe Association

Biography (note)

1. Alphonso H. Johnson, a Harlem resident, was a sleeping car porter with the Pullman Company and a member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.

Author

1. Johnson, Alphonso Henry, 1892-

Title

1. Alphonso H. Johnson papers, 1932-1942.

Biography

1. Alphonso H. Johnson, a Harlem resident, was a sleeping car porter with the Pullman Company and a member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid

Local subject

1. Black author.

Research call number

1. Sc MG 550