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park-ave-foyer-murals.jpg
Color picture postcard depicting the Park Avenue Foyer of the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel, c. 1943. Steel engraving by Dr. Joseph Guttman.

artdeco018.jpg
Color photograph depicting one of the thirteen allegorical murals done by Louis Rigal in 1935. The murals are located along the ceiling in the Park Avenue Foyer.

artdeco019.jpg
Color photograph depicting one of the thirteen allegorical murals done by Louis Rigal in 1935. The murals are located along the ceiling in the Park Avenue Foyer.

HB 5.jpg
Black and white photograph depicting the Park Avenue Foyer looking toward the Main Lobby from the 1935 publication "The Waldorf-Astoria" by Richard Averill Smith.

"...the walls and pilaster are of Rockwood Stone...Louis Rigal designed the rug to…

HB 6.jpg
Black and white photograph depicting the Park Avenue Foyer and Terraces decorated for Christmas from the 1935 publication "The Waldorf-Astoria" by Richard Averill Smith.

HB 7.jpg
Black and white photograph depicting the Park Avenue Foyer and Terraces decorated for Easter from the 1935 publication "The Waldorf-Astoria" by Richard Averill Smith.

Archive014_Frank Wangeman.jpg
Black and white photograph depicting Conrad Hilton and Waldorf=Astoria Managing Director Frank Wangeman overseeing the installation of the Park Avenue Lobby Chandelier.

artdeco014.jpg
Black and white photograph depicting the Park Avenue Foyer. Note the Rockwood stone columns and intricate grill work along the staircase. Also pictured are two of the Rigal murals and the "Wheel of Life" mosaic in the center of the Foyer.
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