Industry, Commerce, and Agriculture
General
Cavnes, Max Parvin. The Hoosier Community at War. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1961.
City Planning Associates, Inc. Commercial Base Study- Gary, Indiana. Gary, 1966.
County Plat and Directory Company. Official Farm Plat Book and Directory. Lake County, n.d.
Department of Financial Institutions, State of Indiana. Annual Report. Indianapolis, 1959-.
Duddy, Edward A. Agriculture in the Chicago Region. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1929.
Indiana Business and Industry; Special Issue, History of Indiana Manufacturing. Cleveland, David B., ed. Vol. 10, no. 1 (January, 1966).
Indiana Department of Natural Resources. Natural Resource Inventory, technical Report No. 101. Indianapolis, 1976.
Kress, A. J. “The Role of Industrial Linkages within the Iron and Steel Complex of the Calumet Region of Lake County, Indiana.” Masters’ thesis, Indiana State University, 1975.
Lake County, Indiana. Tax Report on Northern Lake County Industries for 1918- 1919. Crown Point, 1919.
Lake County, Indiana, Where Industries Have Supplanted the Tepees of the Pottawatomies. [“Issued on the Occasion of the Visit of the 72d General Assembly of Indiana to Lake County. January 22, 1921”]. N.p., 1921.
Maling, John B., for Hammond Chamber of Commerce. The Promised Land of Industry: The Industrial Development and Economic Background of the Indiana Section of the Calumet Region. Hammond: Hammond Chamber of Commerce, 1927.
Mayer, Harold M. “Lake County, Indiana.” Typescript, 1954. GPL.
Meyer, A. H. and Mitchell, N. “Manufactural Geography of Hammond, Indiana (a Study in Geographical Anomaly)” Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 72 (1962): 190.
McGouldrich, Paul F. and Tamreau, Michael B. “Did American Manufacturers Discriminate Against Immigrants Before 1914?” Journal of Economic History 37 (1977):732.
Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission. “The Industrial Heritage of Northwester Indiana.” Highland, 1974.
Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission. Industrial Sites in Northwest Indiana. Highland, n.d.
Phillips, Clifton J. Indiana in Transition: The Emergence of an Industrial Commonwealth, 1880-1920. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1968.
Purdue University, Cooperative Extension Service. Lake County Interior Soil Survey Report: Agricultural Section. West Lafayette, 1966.
Sinclair, Elsie. “The Story of Consumer Co-operation,” Indiana Magazine of History 33 (March, 1937):45.
U.S., Department of Agriculture Survey by Ival D. Persinger, Soil Conservation Service. Soil Survey of Lake County, Indiana. Washington, D.C.: U.S., Government Printing Office, 1972.
Urban Renewal Plan. “Small Farms Urban Renewal Area, Project Number Ind. R- 67, Gary, Indiana.” N.p., 1969.
Weiss, Janet Laura. “Industrial Relations in the Calumet District of Indiana.” Masters’ thesis, University of Chicago, 1937.
Economic Studies
Gary Office of Economic Development. Initial Overall Economic Development Program. Gary, 1976.
Gary Office of Economic Development. A Strategy for Economic Development; Report to Mayor’s Office of Economic Development. Gary, 1976.
Gordon, John R. and Brooks, Robert M. Discussion Outline 1973- Shaping the Future of Lake County- Selected Economic Characteristics. Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1973.
Hogan, William T. Economic History of the Iron and Steel Industry in the United States. 5 vols. Lexington, MA: Health, 1971.
Lake County Opportunity Council. Annual Report, 1965-.
Lake- Porter County Regional Transportation and Planning Commission. “Government Revenue and Expenditure Procedure manual and Technical Report.” Mimeographed. Highland, 1973.
Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission. Economic Development: Background for the Economic Component of the Comprehensive Regional Plan. Highland, 1977.
Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission. Economic Diversification Potentials in Northwestern Indiana. Highland, 1978.
Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission. “Economic and Social Inventories, Technical Report 102.” 2 vols. Mimeographed. Highland, 1976.
Robertson, Lynn S. The Economic Significance of the Non-Farming Rural Population in Northwest Indiana. Lafayette: Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station, 1934.
Tec-Search, for Gary Plan Commission. Master Plan Report, Number Two. Gary, 1963.
The Steel Industry
Appleton, John B. “The Iron and Steel Industry of the Calumet District, A Study in Economic Geography.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1925.
Appleton, John B. “The Iron and Steel Industry of the Calumet District, A Study in Economic Geography,” University of Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences, 13 no. 2 (June, 1927).
Bate, Phyllis. “The Development of the Iron and Steel Industry in the Chicago Area.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1948.
Berglund, Abraham. The United States Steel Corporation. New York: Columbia University Press, 1907.
Bridge, James H. The History of the Carnegie Steel Company: A Romance of Millions. New York: Aldine Book Co., 1903.
Bridge, James H The Inside History of the Carnegie Steel Company: A Romance of Millions. New York: Aldine Book Co., 1903.
Broude, Henry W. Steel Decisions and the National Economy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963.
Burck, Gilbert. “The Transformation of U.S. Steel.,” Fortune 53, no. 1 (January, 1956):88.
Butler, Joseph G., Jr. Fifty Years of Iron and Steel. Cleveland: Penton Press Co., 1922.
“The Corporation: United States Steel and Major Subsidiaries,” Fortune 13 (March, 1936):58, (April, 1936):126, (May, 1936):92, (June, 1936):113.
Cotter, Arundel. Authentic History of United States Steel Corporation. New York: Moody Magazine & Book Co., 1916.
Cotter, Arundel. United States Steel, A Corporation with a Soul. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, & Co., 1921.
Fisher, Douglas A. The Epic of Steel. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.
Fisher, Douglas A. Steel in the War… United States Steel Corporation. New York: United States Steel Corp., 1946.
Fisher, Douglas A. Steel Serves the Nation, 1901-1951: The Fifty Year Story of the United States Steel. N.p.: United States Steel Corp., 1951.
Gary commercial Club. Indiana, the Coming Steel and Iron Manufacturing Center of the World, Some Facts About the New United States Steep Corporation. Gary, n.d.
Greer, Edward. Big Steel, Little Steal: Class, Race, and Power in an Industrial City. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1978.
Greer, Edward. Big Steel: Black Politics and Corporate Power in Gary, Indiana. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1979.
Greer, Edward. “Racial Employment Discrimination in the Gary Works, 1906-1974,” in Social Class in the Contemporary United States. Eds. Gerald Erickson and Harold L. Schwartz. Minneapolis: Marxist Educational Press, 1977.
Grinstead, Wayne. 50 Years of Inland Steel, 1893-1943. Chicago: Inland Steel Co., 1943.
Gulick, Charles A. Labor Policy of the United States Steel Corporation. Columbia University Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, vol. 66. New York, 1924.
Hendrickson, Eldon S. Capital Expenditures in the Steel Industry, 1900 to 1953. New York, 1978.
Hess, E. B. and Meyer, A. “Gary ‘Big Steel’: Geographic Design and Destiny,” Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 68 (1958):237.
Holbrook, Stewart H. Iron Brew: A Century of American Ore and Steel. New York: Macmillan Co., 1939.
Illinois Steel Company. Gary Works Circle. Company newspaper, 1916-1931. GPL.
Illinois Steel Company. Rules and Regulations (Operating) in Ten Languages. 10 vols. Gary, 1916-1918. GPL.
Illinois Steel Company. Short History, General Statistics and views of Gary Works. Chicago: Illinois Steel Co., 1922. GPL.
Illinois Steel Company Souvenir Program; Fifth Annual Celebration, Labor Day, September 2, 1918. Gary, 1918. GPL.
Illinois Steel Company. Specifications and Devices for Safety of Workmen on and About Machinery to be Constructed and Installed, and Operating Conditions to be Maintained at its Plants. Chicago: Illinois Steel Co., 1914. GPL.
Indiana Steel Company. Indiana Steel Company, Gary, Indiana. Gary, n.d… GPL.
Inland Steel Company, Communications and Employee Activities Department. Air, Water & Inland Steel: Environmental Quality Control at Inland Steel Company’s Indiana Harbor Works. Pamphlet. East Chicago, 1980.
Inland Steel Company, Communications and Employee Activities Department. Facts on the Dollar a Day Increase: Closed Shops and Check- Off Demanded by (C.I.O) From Inland Steel Company. Chicago: Inland Steel Co., 1942.
Inland Steel Company, Communications and Employee Activities Department. 25 Year Club Yearbook. Chicago, 1958-.
Inland Steel Company, Communications and Employee Activities Department. “Wage Chronology.” Typescript, East Chicago, 1972.
Kress, Allen J. “The Role of Industrial Linkages Within the Iron and Steel Complex of the Calumet Region of Lake County, Indiana.” Masters’ thesis, Indiana State University, 1975.
McClelland, E. H. Review of Iron and Steel Literature for 1919-1938. 2 vols. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Library, 1920-1939.
Perry, W.A. “A History of Inland Steel Company and the Indiana Harbor Works.” Mimeographed, N.p., 1980.
Plan of Employee Representation. Gary Works, Illinois Steel Company. Gary, 1934. GPL.
Reck, Franklin M. Sand in Their Shoes: The Story of American Steel Foundries. Chicago: American Steel Foundries, 1952.
Reichman, A. “History of the Steel Industry in the Chicago District: Journal of Western Society of Engineers 43 (February, 1938):37.
Roger, Allan. “Industrial Inertia- Major Factor in the Location of Steel Industry in the United States,” Geographical Review 42 (1952):56.
Rowan, Richard L., for Philadelphia Industrial Research Unit, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce. The Negro in the Steel Industry. Racial Policies of American History Report no. 3. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968.
Schroeder, Gertrude G. The Growth of Major Steel Companies, 1900-1950. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science Series 10, no. 2. Baltimore, 1953.
Sofchalk, Donald G. “The Chicago Memorial Day Incident: An Episode of Mass Action,” Labor History 6 (1965):3.
Stolberg, Benjamin. “Big Steel, Little Steel, and CIO,” The Nation 145 (July 31, 1937):119.
Szekely, Julian, ed. The Steel Industry and the Environment. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1973.
Marcus, Maeva. Truman and the Steel Seizure Case: the Limits of Presidential Power. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977.
U.S. Steel Corporation. Annual Reports, Hoboken, NJ, 1902-.
U.S. Steel Corporation. Twenty-Fifth Anniversary. New York: U.S. Steel Corp., 1926.
U.S. Steel Corporation. One Billion Dollars in Progress. Pittsburgh: U.S. Steel Corp., 1964.
U.S. Steel Corporation. The Products and Publications of the Subsidiary Manufacturing Companies of the United States Steel Corporation. New York: U.S. Steel Corp., 1929.
U.S. Steel Corporation. The Story of Steel. New York: U.S. Steel Corp., 1916.
U.S. Steel Corporation. U.S. Steel News. New York, 1936-.
U.S. Steel Corporation. A Trip through the World’s Largest Mill. New York: U.S. Steel Corp., 1937.
Urofsky, Melvin I. Big Steel and the Wilson Administration: A Study in Business- Government Relations. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1969.
Vorse, Mary H. Men and Steel. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920.
Walker, Charles Rumford. Steel: The Diary of a Furnace Worker. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922.
Walker, George. “Why Foreigners are needed in Steel Plants,” Iron Age 124 (August 9, 1929):331.
Ware, N. J. “Wages and Profits in the United States Steel Corporation,” New Republic 68 (October 21, 1931):265.
Warren, Kenneth. The American Steel Industry, 1850-1970, a Geographic Interpretation. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973.
Wertime, Theodore A. The Coming of the Age of Steel. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1962.
White and Hemple, comp. [no first names given]. Properties of the United States Steel Corporation. New York, 1903.
Wilhelm, Donald. “The Big Businessman as a Social Worker, A Series of Person Portraits: Judge Gary of the Steel Trust,” Outlook 107 (August 22, 1914):1005.
“Women in Steel,” Life 15 (August 9, 1943):75.
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. 50 Years in Steel; The Story of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube company: This is America. Youngstown: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., 1950.
The Oil Industry
Babcock, F. Lawrence. The First Fifty, 1889-1939. Pamphlet. Chicago: Standard Oil Co., 1939.
Fanning, Leonard M. Rise of American Oil. New York: Harper & Bros., 1936.
Giddens, Paul H. Standard Oil Company (Indiana): Oil Pioneer of the Middle West. New York: Appleton, Century, Crofts, 1955.
Heinz, Robert V. One Man’s Experience with the Standard Oil Company of Indiana; a Story About Cut Back Asphalt. Hammond: The Hammond Historical Society, 1975.
Montague, Gilbert Holland. The Rise and Progress of the Standard Oil Company. New York: Harper & Bros., 1903.
Standard Oil Company. Amoco Torch. House organ, 1974-.
Standard Oil Company. Standard Torch. House organ, 1948-1960.
Standard Oil Company. Stanolind Record. House organ, 1919-1947.
Standard Oil Company. Torch and Oval. House organ, 1961-1973.
Standard Oil Company. A Trip through Whiting Refinery and Whiting Research Laboratories. Whiting: Standard Oil Co., 1957.
Tarbell, Ida M. The History of Standard Oil Company. 2 Vols New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904.
Whiting Refinery News. 1961-.
Other Industries
Employees Representation Plan of Continental Roll and Steel Foundry Company. N.p., 1934.
Epstein, Ralph C. GATX: A History of the General American Transportation Corporation, 1898-1948. New York: North River Press, 1948.
Graver Tank and Manufacturing Company, Inc. A Century of Craftsmanship in Steel and Alloys, 1857-1957. Pittsburgh: Graver Tank & Manufacturing Co., 1957.
Farms, Crops, and Farmers
Overton, M. H. What is Happening to Agriculture in Northwestern Indiana? West Lafayette: Purdue University, Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin 321, 1928.
Purdue University, Agricultural Experiment Station. “Changes in Farming in Lake and Porter Counties, Indiana, as a Result of Nearness to Industrial Cities.” Bulletin 365. West Lafayette, 1932.