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Black and white photograph depicting the Grand Ballroom during a citywide blackout on November 9, 1965. The Waldorf=Astoria continued to serve dinner by candlelight.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan shakes hands with attendee Darcy Reddan (right) as Darcy's mother looks on. This photograph was taken at the 2013 Catholic Charities event hosted here in our Grand Ballroom.

From the publication "Behind the Scenes at the Waldorf-Astoria", this photograph shows both the administrative side and physical side to working within the banquet and catering departments in the mid-1930s.

Black and white lithographic image depicting the "Music and Dance" ceiling design painted by American muralist Edwin Blashfield in the Grand Ballroom at the Astoria from the 1903 promotional publication assembled by George C. Boldt, then manager and…

This is an image of the luxury cars on display at the Ford General Motors Company Convention held in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. c. 1937

Black and white photograph depicting the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Elsa Maxwell on their way to the April in Paris Ball at the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel, April 10, 1959.

Black and white photograph of the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel on Election night, November 6, 1968.

Decorative flyer advertising the 73rd Annual Explorer's Club dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel held on April 15th, 1977. Toastmaster was astronaut James Lovell with featured guests Lowell Thomas, Willard F. Rockwell, Jr., Robert Jastrow, Elie S.…