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- Creator
- Johnson, Alphonso Henry, 1892-
- Call number
- Sc MG 550
- Physical description
- 2 folders
- Preferred Citation
- [Item], Alphonso H. Johnson papers, Sc MG 550, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
- Access to materials
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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. 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.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Gift, 409 Edgecombe Association, 1988
Key terms
Names
Subjects
- African American labor union members
- African American train attendants
- Black author
- Man-woman relationships -- Correspondence
- Porters -- United States -- Correspondence
- Pullman porters -- United States -- Correspondence
- Train attendants -- United States -- Correspondence
Material types
Using the collection
Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Second Floor