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Showers Brothers Kitchen Cabinet Plant Public Deposited
- Event/Building Name
Building Name: RCA (Radio Corporation of America)
Building Name: Showers Brothers Kitchen Cabinet Plant
- Place Name
- Patterson Drive (West)
- Rogers Street (South)
- Description
- This image scanned from "Showers Brothers Company: Bed Room, Dining Room and Kitchen Furniture" Catalog, January 1926, page 3. The view is from the southwest looking toward the northeast. These building were located at the southwest corner of South Rogers Street and West Patterson Drive in Bloomington. Rogers Street cannot be seen in this image, but it runs along the far side of the building. The buildings eventually became a part of RCA Manufacturing. The first RCA television rolled off the assembly line here on September 6, 1949 and the last on April 1, 1998.
- City
- Bloomington
- Source Identifier
- P0022386
- Topic
- Factories
- Sawtooth roofs
- Corporate Name: Showers Brothers Company
- Corporate Name: RCA (Radio Corporation of America)
- Railroad locomotive industry
- Television industry
- Water towers
- Drawings
- Bloomington (Downtown & General Street Scenes)
- Transportation industry
- Railroad facilities
- Exterior
- Furniture industry
- Title
- Showers Brothers Kitchen Cabinet Plant
- Source Metadata Identifier
- Date Taken
- 1926
- Holding Location
- Bloomington - University Archives
Wells Library E460
1320 E 10th St.
Bloomington, IN 47405
Contact at archives@iu.edu, 812-855-1127
- Bloomington - University Archives
- State
- Indiana
- Campus
- IU Bloomington
- Persistent URL
- Series
- Subseries: Showers Brothers Company
- Buildings & Grounds
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