Steinway & Sons (Images of America) 9781467104869, 9781439669877, 1467104868

Steinway & Sons is a unique entity in American history. Steinway is many things--an iconic piano, an American succes

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Steinway & Sons (Images of America)
9781467104869, 9781439669877, 1467104868

The Steinway—once called the "instrument of the immortals"—is more than the preeminent American piano. It is a

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Through four generations, back to 1906 when German patriarch Albert Ecke originally settled in California, the Ecke Ranc

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As owner and proprietor of The Lady & Sons restaurant in Savannah, Paula Deen is one of the South’s most celebrated

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Oliver Wendell Holmes coined the Massachusetts State House as the "Hub of the Universe." In Boston: A Historic

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"Camp Pendleton was established in 1942 by the Navy Department as the West Coast training facility for the United S

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In America the streets were paved with gold. That was the mistaken notion of many an immigrant to the United States in t

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Armed with a simple pocket compass, a small boat, and an intense desire to find the USS Cairo, three men--Edwin C. Bears

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Family, fame and tragedy, the story of Australian Crawl's Bill and Guy McDonough. Founded in 1978, Australian Cra

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Surfing came to the central Oregon coast in the early 1960s. Mostly young boys from Newport and the Agate Beach area too

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