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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Krause, Carrol, 1958-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, [2012]
Series:Quarry books.
Subjects:
Showers Brothers Furniture Factory (Bloomington, Ind.) > History.
Furniture industry and trade > Indiana > Bloomington > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introductiono
  • A note on the sources and monetary values
  • Showers family information
  • The reverend and his family
  • Showers & Hendrix
  • Legal troubles
  • The brothers enter business
  • The booming [apos]80s
  • Death and fire
  • Prosperity and loss
  • Boom and bust
  • Moving toward modernity
  • Houses and a hospital
  • "The world's largest furniture factory"
  • The shop notes years
  • Another beginning
  • Final successes
  • Everything changes
  • Legacy
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.