• Showers Brothers Furniture company : the shared fortunes of a family,a city, and a university/ Carrol Krause
  • Record Type: Electronic resources : monographic
    Title Information: the shared fortunes of a family,a city, and a university/ Carrol Krause
    Author: KrauseCarrol, 1958-
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    Place of Publication: Bloomington, IN
    Published: Indiana University Press;
    Year of Publication: c2012
    Description: 1 online resource (312 p.).
    Series: Quarry books
    Subject: Furniture industry and trade - History. - Indiana -
    Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253002242/
    Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
    ISBN: 9780253002242electronic bk.
    ISBN: 0253002249electronic bk.
    ISBN: 9780253002037pbk.
    Content Note: Acknowledgments -- Introductiono -- A note on the sources and monetary values -- Showers family information -- The reverend and his family -- Showers & Hendrix -- Legal troubles -- The brothersenter 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" -- Theshop notes years -- Another beginning -- Final successes -- Everything changes -- Legacy -- Notes --Bibliography -- Index
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