Industrialist Stickers
Description: John P. Parker (1827 – February 4, 1900) was an American abolitionist, inventor, iron moulder and industrialist. Parker, who was African American, helped hundreds of slaves to freedom in the Underground Railroad resistance movement based in Ripley, Ohio. He rescued fugitive slaves for nearly fifteen years. He was one of the few blacks to patent his inventions before 1900. His house in Ripley has been designated a National Historic Landmark and restored. Parker was born in Norfolk, Virginia, the son of a slave mother and white father. Born into slavery under the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, at the age of eight John was forced to walk to Richmond, where he was sold at the slave market to a doctor from Mobile, Alabama.[2] Whi...
Description: American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, and an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within. She was a pioneer in her field and launched a new kind of investigative journalism.
Description: American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, and an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within. She was a pioneer in her field and launched a new kind of investigative journalism.
Description: George Pullman Portrait | George Pullman Artwork on prints, stickers, mugs, tshirts, canvases, wall art and more. George Pullman was an American engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and founded a company town, Pullman, for the workers who manufactured it
