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When the Showers family arrived in Bloomington, Indiana, the railroad was just coming 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 paved streets, which brought additional new businesses to town, and helped Indiana University flourish. The later philanthropic acts of the Showers family encouraged the town's continued development. The family's contributions helped the institution make it through difficult times and paved the way to its becoming the largest university in the state. In this history of Showers Brothers, Carrol Krause tells the story of a remarkably successful collaboration between business, town, and gown.

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• Full title: Showers Brothers Furniture Company
• Subtitle: The Shared Fortunes of a Family, a City, and a University
• Author: Carrol Ann Krause
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312
• EAN: 9780253002037
• ISBN: 0253002036
• ID: 04869791
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Weight: 40 g
• Dimensions: 254 × 178 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. May 2012

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