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September, 2005
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From Small Town to Downtown
A History of the Jewett Car Company, 1893–1919

By Lawrence A. Brough and James H. Graebner
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 254. Illustrations, maps, tables, references, index. $49.95.)

The Jewett Car Company, established in 1893 in Jewett, Ohio, built cars for interurbans, street railways, and rapid transit lines. Seeking a higher profile, more extensive facilities, and wider markets, the owners moved the company to Newark, Ohio, in 1900. The life of the company mirrored the trajectory of U.S. interurban and street railway systems; it closed up shop in 1919 after several years of rapidly declining production. While many of the cars produced by Jewett were destined for the country's largest cities, Indiana lines were notable among the list of customers. . . .
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