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Black and white photograph depicting Adlai Stevenson arriving on the Waldorf Astoria's private train platform, February 1953. The railway is connected to Grand Central Terminal, but is no longer in use due to security issues. Access to this track is…

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Black and white photograph depicting Conrad N. Hilton with a certificate of Cooperation awarded to Hilton Hotels International by the Economic Cooperation Administration on December 29, 1951. Hilton Hotels International, of which Mr. Hilton was…

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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.

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Black and white photograph depicting General Dwight D. Eisenhower at a dinner party in the Waldorf=Astoria's Wedgwood Room with his son, Captain John Sheldon Eisenhower, and Mrs. Eisenhower, October 20, 1950.

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Color picture postcard depicting Herbert Hoover in his Waldorf Towers apartment on his 84th birthday, August 10, 1958.

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Black and white photograph of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles arriving at the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel for a black-tie event, 1950s.

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Marilyn Monroe takes a photograph with then-husband Arthur Miller. They were guests of the "April in Paris Ball" in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria held on April 11, 1957. The "April in Paris Ball" benefited the French hospital in New York…
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