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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
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.
Temas:
Showers Brothers Furniture Factory (Bloomington, Ind.) > History.
Showers Brothers Furniture Factory (Bloomington, Ind.)
Furniture industry and trade > Indiana > Bloomington > History.
Meubles > Industrie > Indiana > Bloomington > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Corporate & Business History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Furniture industry and trade
Indiana > Bloomington
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; A NOTE ON THE SOURCES AND MONETARY VALUES; SHOWERS FAMILY INFORMATION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 The Reverend and His Family; 2 Showers & Hendrix; 3 Legal Troubles; 4 The Brothers Enter Business; 5 The Booming '80s; 6 Death and Fire; 7 Prosperity and Loss; 8 Boom and Bust; 9 Moving toward Modernity; 10 Houses and a Hospital; 11 "The World's Largest Furniture Factory"; 12 The Shop Notes Years; 13 Another Beginning; 14 Final Successes; 15 Everything Changes; 16 Legacy; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W.

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