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Ice skaters on the roof garden of the Fifth Avenue Waldorf-Astoria

Eamon de Valera (center), President of Ireland, on top of the original Waldorf Astoria Hotel in 1919. From left to right are Harry Boland, Liam Mellows (leader of the ‘1916 exiles’), Eamon de Valera, Diarmuid Lynch (secretary of the Friends of…

This correspondence from 1964 describes the origins of the Martini. According to this evidence, a man by the name of Mr. Martinez visited the original Waldorf Astoria Hotel sometime in the 1890s and suggested this drink to a bartender at the hotel.…

This is a photograph of the original Goldsmith Clock which was featured at the World's Colombian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. This clock was a gift from Queen Victoria as a way to show the friendship between England and the United States.

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Black and white photograph depicting the Exhibition Clock at the Goldsmith and Co.'s Exhibit. Originally designed for the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, the clock now stands in the Main Lobby of the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel.

Black and white photographic postcard depicting The Palm Garden of the Old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, c. 1908.

Black and white photograph of President William Howard Taft inscribed to Oscar Tschirky, the famed Maitre d'Hotel of the Waldorf=Astoria, February 24, 1913.