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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…

Press release announcing the contract between Thompson Starrett Company and James J. Conroy & Son, Inc. for "the metal furring and lathing and the plain and ornamental plastering..." for the new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, then under construction.

Press release announcing the contract between Thompson Starrett Company and the General Bronze Corp. of Long island City for the "architectural and ornamental bronze, iron, aluminum and nickel work" for the then under-construction Park Avenue…

Black and white photograph depicting the Presidential Suite at the original Waldorf on Fifth Avenue and 33rd Street. This first White House away from the White House hosted every United States President from Grover Cleveland through Herbert Hoover…

Black and white photograph depicting Waldorf wait staff enjoying what was to be the world’s tallest hotel. The first steel grillage was hoisted into position on the site of the Park Avenue Waldorf-Astoria in 1930.