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Press release announcing the contract between Thompson Starrett Company and James J. Conroy & Son, Inc. for "the metal furring and lathing and the plain and ornamental plastering..." for the new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, then under construction.

"Photograph shows the new Waldorf-Astoria, under construction at Park Avenue, 49th and 50th Streets, New York. Looking South on Park Avenue, St. Bartholomew's Church (Left Foreground). The Waldorf-Astoria, now erected to be about one-third of its…

House Beautiful advertisement for a pre-view of luxury apartments in the soon-to-open Park Avenue Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Note how the advertisement is geared toward Depression-Era America, promising that the living arrangements "meet thrift ideas."

Press release announcing the contract between Thompson Starrett Company and the General Bronze Corp. of Long island City for the "architectural and ornamental bronze, iron, aluminum and nickel work" for the then under-construction Park Avenue…

This photo shows 2 construction workers on top of the Towers of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel before its construction project was completed in 1931. A view of Central Park can be seen on the far left-hand side of this photo. (Take note of the fact that…

Black and white photograph depicting a Bird's Eye view of the construction of the Waldorf=Astoria, 1930.

"1930 Construction Begins - new Hotel opened Oct. 1931"

Black and white photograph depicting a Bird's Eye View of the construction of the Park Avenue Waldorf=Astoria, c. 1930.

Black and white photograph depicting the construction of the Waldorf Towers, Waldorf=Astoria Hotel, 1931.