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"Photograph shows the new Waldorf-Astoria, under construction at Park Avenue, 49th and 50th Streets, New York. Looking South on Park Avenue, St. Bartholomew's Church (Left Foreground). The Waldorf-Astoria, now erected to be about one-third of its…

Black and white panoramic photograph from Park Avenue depicting the digging of the cellar at the Waldorf-Astoria construction site, c. 1930.

"Photograph shows first steel grillage being hoisted into position on the site of the new Waldorf-Astoria." 1930

Black and white photograph depicting the first steel rivet being driven into the steel structure of the Park Aenue Waldorf-Astoria on March 24, 1930. Pictured from Left to Right: Oscar Tschirky, Maitre de Hotel; Lucius Boomer, President; Charles…

Black and white photographic postcard depicting the exterior of the Fifth Avenue Waldorf-Astoria Hotel

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 "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 one of the ceiling murals of the Silver Corridor. These murals were done by American Artist Edward Emerson Simmons in the 1890s and were take from the Astor Gallery of the Old Waldorf Hotel.