TY - BOOK AU - Krause,Carrol ED - Project Muse. TI - Showers Brothers Furniture company: the shared fortunes of a family, a city, and a university/ Carrol Krause T2 - Quarry books SN - 9780253002242 AV - HD9773.U5 K73 2012 U1 - 338.7/645409772255 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Bloomington, IN PB - Indiana University Press KW - Showers Brothers Furniture Factory (Bloomington, Ind.) KW - History KW - Furniture industry and trade KW - Indiana KW - Bloomington KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253002242/ ER -