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In summer 2011, Celebrated Living, the luxury magazine for American Airlines and American Eagle Premium Class passengers, featured The Waldorf=Astoria Hotel as third on its list of Top 10 U.S. Business Hotels and fifth on its list of Top 20 Mainland…

News item from the New York Times' F.Y.I. section written by Michael Pollack that refers to the use of room 786 of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel as the U.N.'s first headquarters, May 1, 2005.

Access Date: 2011-02-18

Black and white photograph depicting The Queen Mother at the reception in her honor held in the Grand Ballroom, November 3, 1954.

Black and white photograph depicting The Queen Mother just before entering the Grand Ballroom for the reception in her honor, November 3, 1954.

Black and white photograph depicting Conrad Hilton with his longtime administrative assistant Olive Wakeman and Francis Cardinal Spellman at Cardinal Spellman's Christmas party in 1954. Conrad Hilton was born on Christmas Day in 1887.

Black and white photograph showing Cary Grant, Barbara Harris, and unidentified individuals at the awards presentation of the Friar's Club, 1982.

Black and white photograph depicting Conrad Hilton (right) with New Mexico Governor Edwin L. Mechem (left) during a reception for a group of New Mexico businessmen at The Waldorf on May 17, 1962. When a supervisory employee (who had been tending bar…

Black and white photograph depicting (from left to right) Conrad N. Hilton, chairman of the board of Hilton Hotels Corporation, former astronaut John Glenn, Dr. Wernher von Braun, director of the Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Alabama,…