Identifier: americanhomr03newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York, Munn and Co
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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ITS DURABILITY STANDS UNRIVALLED. Acomparison with other pianos will easily establish the former, while the mighty host of satisfied owners with whom the pur-chase of a Steinway has proved an investment for life should substantiate the latter. It is the marvellous lasting qualities ofthe Steinway which make it, though its initial cost exceeds that of all other pianos, THE CHEAPEST IN THE END. Theliberal patronage of the great steamship lines is another striking recognition of this fact. They soon learned that there is butone piano which could and would withstand the extremes of temperature, frequent and rapid climatic changes and excessive damp-ness, the very arch-enemies of pianos, and hence you find the Steinway in the salons of such ocean greyhounds and floating palacesas the Deutschland, Amerika, Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, Baltic, Cedric, Oceanic, Kaiser Wilhelm derGrosse, Lucania, Campania, Minnesota, Dakota, Northland, Northwest, Empress of Britain, Empressof Ireland, etc., etc.
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PHOTOGRAPH OF STEINWAY GRAND PIANO IN XVI. ON BOARD OF I HE MELWTHE HOLLAND-AMERICA LINE AMSTERDAM, THE NtWE: LARGEST AND FINEST SHIP OF Space forbids the enumeration of all the lines that have equipped their steamers with the Steinway ; suffice it to mention only some of the more prominentof them, namely: The WHITE STAR LINE, The HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE, The CUNARD LINE, The NORTH GERMANLLOYD, The HOLLAND-AMERICA LINE, The ATLANTIC TRANSPORT LINE, The ALLAN LINE (Liverpool to Montreal), TheNEW YORK & CUBA MAIL S. S. LINE (Ward Line), The RED D LINE (New York to South America), THE NEW YORK & PORTORICO S. S. LINE, The UNION CASTLE LINE (England to South Africa), The PACIFIC LINE (China, Japan, Australia, etc.) TheNORTHERN S. S. COMPANY (Buffalo to Duluth), 1 he CITY LINE (England to Egypt and British Indies), The PENINSULAR &ORIENTAL LINE (East Indies, Japan and China), The GREAT NORTHERN S. S. LINE (Seattle to the Philippines, Japan and China),and The CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILW

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