In 1890 Duane Doty prepared an itemized accounting of the nearly 6,000 Pullman Inc. employees living or working in the town of Pullman. Doty, who was Pullman town manager, organized the data by the "industry" in which employees worked (e.g. Pullman Car Works, Pullman Foundry, Standard Knitting Mills, Town of Pullman) and by their place of birth and ethnicity. His comments regarding workers' ethnicity--particularly Irish-born employees as "[n]ever a desirable element"--reveal common bigotries and racial stereotypes.

Source: Newberry Library