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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krause, Carrol, 1958-

Series:

Quarry books.

Quarry books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Furniture industry and trade--Indiana--Bloomington--History.

Furniture industry and trade.

Showers Brothers Furniture Factory (Bloomington, Ind.)--History.

Showers Brothers Furniture Factory (Bloomington, Ind.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, IN : Quarry Books, an imprint of Indiana University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 company. The business proved to be extremely profitable and a stroke of good fortune for the small community. The company's success strengthened Bloomington's infrastructure, helping to develop new neighborhoods, and the philanthropic acts of the Showers family supported the town's continued devel

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613642882

9781280665950

1280665955

9780253002242

0253002249

OCLC:

794663271