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Black and white photograph depicting children at play in the Children's Play Room from the 1935 publication "The Waldorf-Astoria" by Richard Averill Smith. Photograph by Sigurd-Fischer.

Black and white photograph depicting the boudoir of a Waldorf Towers Apartment from the 1935 publication "The Waldorf-Astoria" by Richard Averill Smith.

Pen and ink drawing self-portrait and holiday greetings by Rene Black. To the left, the writing reads:
"Cuisine c'est un art
Service le luxe
May it for ever be the everlasting richness and the meanings of good cuisine, poured wine and the…

UN Secretary General, Dag Hammerskjold, is greeted and honored at a luncheon held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in 1958.