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Showers Brothers Furniture company : the shared fortunes of a family, a city, and a university /

When the Showers family arrived in Bloomington, Indiana, the railroad had only recently come to town and a modest university was struggling to survive. Having spent the prior 18 years moving from place to place, the family decided to settle down and invest its modest resources to start a furniture c...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Krause, Carrol, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, IN : Quarry Books, an imprint of Indiana University Press, ©2012.
Colección:Quarry books.
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