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Black and white photograph depicting the Art Deco design on the elevator doors leading to the Grand Ballroom.

Black and white photographic representation of an Art-Deco rendering depicting the Park Avenue Waldorf=Astoria Hotel, date unknown.

The Park Avenue chandelier was installed on Tuesday, February 6th, 1962 as was designed by Joe Travisano upon request by Greene Brothers, Inc., New York City. This chandelier was 10 feet long and 10 feet wide and featured 104 electric candles. It…

Three construction workers are valiantly hoisted atop a steel beam as they give the photographer a wave. The building located behind the three gentleman is The Benjamin Hotel; adjacent to the Benjamin Hotel was the Loew's Theatre, known today as the…

Black and white photograph depicting the "frozen fountain" balustrade detail found in the stairwell between the Silver Corridor and the Main Lobby. This motif is carried throughout the hotel in stairway grills and ceiling cornice friezes.

Black and white photograph depicting French Art Deco artist Louis Rigal standing before his illustrated plan for the "Wheel of Life," located in the center of the Park Avenue Foyer, c. 1935.

Black and white photograph depicting one of the restored murals by Louis Rigal in the Park Avenue lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

Black and white photograph depicting the Main lobby of the Waldorf=Astoria with the great clock front and center.