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This file is the second installment to the "Notes from a Chef's Diary" series created by Arno Schmidt, Executive Chef of the Waldorf Astoria throughout the 1970s. This series includes a brief dialogue and exclusive Waldorf Astoria recipe for each…

This file is the third installment to the "Notes from a Chef's Diary" series created by Arno Schmidt, Executive Chef of the Waldorf Astoria throughout the 1970s. This series includes a brief dialogue and exclusive Waldorf Astoria recipe for each…

This file is the fourth installment to the "Notes from a Chef's Diary" series created by Arno Schmidt, Executive Chef of the Waldorf Astoria throughout the 1970s. This series includes a brief dialogue and exclusive Waldorf Astoria recipe for each…

Black and white photograph showing Cary Grant, Barbara Harris, and unidentified individuals at the awards presentation of the Friar's Club, 1982.

This rare, original edition of Scientific American features a cover story on the construction of the original Astoria Hotel in 1897. The Astoria Hotel, funded by John Jacob Astor IV, was the sister property to William Waldorf Astor's Waldorf Hotel.…

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.

Black and white photograph depicting the Park Avenue Entrance looking South on Park Avenue from the 1935 publication "The Waldorf-Astoria" by Richard Averill Smith.

"...St. Bartholemew's in the foreground, the New York Central Building closing the…

Black and white photograph depicting the Park Avenue Entrance of the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel from the 1935 publication "The Waldorf-Astoria" by Richard Averill Smith.