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.