STEINWAY:
IMMIGRATION, FAMILY BUSINESS, NEIGHBORHOOD.
A NEW YORK STORY.
TEACHER'S GUIDE
Introduction
Lessons Overview
  		• The Great Migration
  		•  Kleindeutschland-Little Germany
  		• Letters from America
  		• The Age of Improvement & Piano Production
  		• The United States in 1860 & A House Divided
  		• The Life Story of Piano 2166 & Family Stories
  		•  Steinway Success
  		•  Sales Agent Training Course
  		• Steinway Workers
  		• Steinway Village
    Educational Resources
  		• NYC History-General
  		•  Immigration
  		• Population & Kleindeutschland-Little Germany
  		• The Age of Improvement & Piano Production
  		• Piano 2166
  		• Steinway Workers, Steinway Village & Queens
  		• Schedule a Tour
    Ó 2001 La Guardia and Wagner Archives

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    EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES: POPULATION

    Two lessons, The Great Migration, and the U.S. in 1860, focus the numbers and movement of people. Various textbooks and encyclopedias were consulted while compiling these lessons.


    U.S. Census Bureau     http://www.census.gov/
    The U.S. Census Bureau provides population-based lesson plans for grades K-12.
    At the home page, under "Special Topics," click on "For Teachers"
    For K-4 Teaching Materials see http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/schtm01.html

    For historical maps, see Martin Greenwald Associates. Historical Maps On File. New York: Facts On File, 1984.

     

    EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES: KLEINDEUTSCHLAND-LITTLE GERMANY

    See the general sources on NYC above, especially "Kleindeutschland," pp. 98-99 in The Historical Atlas of New York City.

    Limmer, Ruth. Six Heritage Tours of the Lower East Side: A Walking Guide. New York: NYU Press, 1997. (Written in collaboration with the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.)

    Rasenberger, Jim. "Searching for Charles." New York Times, Sunday May 20, 2001. Late Edition. Sec. 14, p. 1, col. 2.
    A writer exploring his family history retraces the path of his great-great grandfather, a German immigrant who lived and worked in Kleindeutschland.


    Nadel, Stanley. Little Germany: Ethnicity, Religion and Class in New York City, 1845-1880. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990.
    Information on German-American culture can be found at the website of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, especially the "Links" page, at http://www.wisc.edu/mki/