Silent Workplace: Shops, stores, businesses, and ... (ISBN 0974518646)

A pictorial examination of old rural and small town life in the United States:
Frozen in time, and ready to collapse - Hoosier Photographer John Bower examines these old businesses in "Silent Workplace: Shops, Stores, Businesses, and Factories where Hoosiers Once Earned a Living". Packed cover to cover with massive, high quality black and white pictures of these abandoned pieces of ancient Americana, Bower gives a somber yet intriguing look at the days that America has long left behind. "Silent Workplace: Shops, Stores, Businesses, and Factories where Hoosiers Once Earned a Living" is a pictorial examination of old rural and small town life in the United States, and is highly recommended to any community library photography book collection.