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: STEINWAY WORKERS, STEINWAY VILLAGE & QUEENS

    Illustrated Pamphlet on the Founding and Development of Steinway, N.Y. (Long Island City). Reprinted from: J.S. Kelsey, History of Long Island City, N.Y. Long Island City: L.I. Star Publishing Co., 1896.

    La Guardia and Wagner Archives. Queens Local History Collection. Visit our website to see photographs from the collection and to consult finding aids and indexes.

    Landmarks Preservation Commission. Steinway Historic District Designation Report. LP-0873, November 26, 1974.

    Lieberman, Richard K. Steinway & Sons. New Haven: Yale UP, 1995. See pages 78-86.

    Lieberman, Richard K. and Janet E. Lieberman. City Limits: A Social History of Queens. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1983.

    Office of the Queens Borough President. http://www.queens.nyc.ny.us/

    Learn all about life in Queens and its neighborhoods.

    Seyfried, Vincent F. "The Steinways and the Steinway Settlement." Chapter IX in Three Hundred Years of Long Island City, 1630-1930. Queens Community Series. [N.pl.]: Edgian Press, 1984.


    The "Steinway," of the Astoria/92nd Street ferry, c. 1925.