Smithsonian Institution The William Steinway Diary: 1861-1896
Steinway & Sons Records and Family Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Newspaper clipping pasted into entry
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William pasted in a newspaper clipping about the Prizes for American Inventors in London.
The clipping reads: Prizes for American Inventors in London. London, November 4.--The judges on music at the International Inventions Exhibition have awarded gold medals to the Mason and Hamlin Organ and Piano Company and Messrs. Steinway & Sons, for the general excellence of their instru-ments and for several meritorious and useful in-ventions; a silver medal to George Gemunder for musical instruments of the violin class, and for the best imitations of the old masters, and a bronze medal to the Smith American Organ / Company.
