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Found on an undated poster at the Steger-South Chicago Heights Library with the following note attached:
"1. Original Steger Piano Factory;
2. Second Addition to the Factory;
3. Third Addition to the Factory;
4. Smith Nixon Piano Factory…

Steger Piano Manufacturing Co. 1890s. Photo from A Pictoral History of Steger - the Early Years

Steger Piano Factory Demolished 1972. Undated note reads "The building the housed the Steger Piano Factory was demolished in 1972. K-Mart is now at that site." K-Mart closed in 2018 but the building remains.

Minstrel Show, Steger Hall, 1917

Rear of Steger Piano Factory, circa 1900. Undated note says "Rear of the Steger Piano Factory looking SW from the C & E I Tracks, north of 34th St. circa 1900"

Photo text: "J.V.S. daughter Mamie, son inlaw Thomas Northern, grandaughter Lillain."

Back: Funeral card for Mary Steger Northen, 1950

Both items were donated to the library tightly bound together in clear wrap which has not been removed.

Undated photo, John Valentine Steger

Attached note reads "(west) Rear view of Singer Piano Co. near C + E I R R"