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Beginning eight days after the first shots of the American Civil War were fired and three days before his wedding, William Steinway's diary bears witness to one of the most dynamic periods in American history. The breadth and depth of material covered sheds light on thousands of people, places, and events as seen through the eyes of this key figure in the cultural, political, financial, and physical development of New York City. Later installments of the site will include more than 30,000 interlinked topics, including:

  • Anton Rubinstein
  • Anton Seidl
  • Astoria Homestead Company
  • Banking and Financial Panics
  • Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall
  • Brooklyn Trolley Car Strike
  • Carl Shurz
  • Charles Dickens
  • The Chicago Pullman Strike of 1893
  • Chicago World's Fair
  • Civic Engineering Projects of 19th-Century New York
  • Daimler Motor Company
  • Delmonico's and Dining Customs
  • Divorce
  • The Eddie Kreischer Murder Mystery
  • The Education of Children
  • Funeral Customs
  • German Singing Societies
  • Ignace Paderewski
  • Impact of the Telegraph and Telephone
  • Journalism and the Print-Wars
  • Litigation in the 19th-century
  • Matthew Brady
  • Medical Treatments and Changing Notions of Health
  • Musical and Theatrical Performances in 19th-Century New York
  • The New York City Subway System and the "Steinway" Rapid Transit Commission
  • The New York Philharmonic
  • New York Pianomakers Union
  • Niagara Falls and Honeymoon Culture
  • North Beach/Bowery Bay Beach Amusement Park
  • Oswald Ottendorfer
  • Piano Manufacturing and Labor Issues
  • Piano Manufacturers Association
  • President Grover Cleveland
  • Rise of the German Immigrant Class
  • Sedan Day
  • The Social Life of the Family
  • The Steinway Family & the Civil War
  • Steinway & Sons' Concert Hall Promotion and Steinway-Sponsored Tours
  • Steinway & Sons Dealers
  • Steinway & Sons and Piano Innovation
  • Steinway Village: A Company Town
  • The Theodore Thomas Orchestra
  • Trans-Atlantic Travel and Shipping
  • Walter Damrosch and the Damrosch Opera Company