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Black and white photograph depicting the General’s widow, Mrs. Douglas MacArthur, and General Manager Joseph Rantisi in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel on August 5, 1983. For decades Art Deco ornamental grilles, part of the Grand…

Black and white photograph depicting one of the Art Deco metal grillwork designs that appear around the Main Lobby.

Black and white photograph depicting a section of the Art Deco metal grillwork design that appears above the entrance to the Main Lobby from the Park Avenue Foyer.

Color photograph depicting the Main lobby of the Waldorf=Astoria with the great clock front and center. Also note the Marble columns and ceiling detail.

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

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 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 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.