Steinway & Sons collection, 1853-1997.

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Steinway & Sons collection, 1853-1997.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84606513

The collection comprises: illustrated catalogs; pamphlets and mail folders; sales literature; parts and service manuals; wholesale price lists; confidential circulars to dealers; handwritten and typescript advertising contracts, including completed printed form requests for advertising (1869-1903); miscellaneous publications issued by the New York, Hamburg, and London branches of the piano manufacturer Steinway & Sons; photocopies of correspondence of Henry Ziegler (1880-1914) interleaved with photocopies of C.F.T. Steinway's letters to Henry Ziegler (Ziegler books); photocopy of the diary of William Steinway (1861-1896); photocopies of 3 notebooks of confidential circulars to dealers. Items of special note include: an incomplete copy of the firm's first illustrated catalog (1865); illustrated catalogs of pianos in period and art cases (undated); James Huneker's monograph, The Steinway Collection of Paintings by American Artists, together with Prose Portraits of the Great Composers (1919); the Steinway family tree (1917).

9.0 linear ft. (18 boxes) ; 27 x 13 x 39 cm. (boxes 1-14)

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8323701

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

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Ziegler, Henry, 1857-1930

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Steinway family.

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Steinway, C. F. Theodore 1825-1889.

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Steinway, William, 1836-1896

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Piano manufacturer as well as amateur singer and participant in N.Y.C. urban planning and Democratic politics. First chairman of the city's Rapid Transit Commission. From the description of Diary, 1861-1896. (New-York Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 80465801 President of Steinway & Sons. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : New York, 2 April 1886, to Henry Ziegler and Aug. Hobein, 1886 Apr. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id...

Steinway & Sons

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Nationality: English. From the description of Model D Pianoforte, No. 54538 [electronic resource]. 1884. (Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute). WorldCat record id: 222507745 ...