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- Building the World's Greatest Hotel
- The Empire Room: A Setting for Dinner and Dancing
- Hats, Balloons, and Noisemakers
- History of the Motorama
- Oscar of the Waldorf
- The Original Waldorf Astoria Hotel
- The Waldorf Astoria in Pop Culture
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The Big Four meet in Lucius Boomer's Suite
The image from the newsletter "At the Waldorf", shows armed guards standing at attention at the entrance of the meeting place for the "Big Four". Those present were Foreign Ministers of the United States, Great Britain, U.S.S.R., and France. They…
The Bishop McDonnell Memorial High School Senior Prom
On December 27, 1945 the Senior Prom for the Bishop McDonnell Memorial High School was hosted in the Starlight Roof of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. This picture album was compiled by Gorodess and was donated by Friend of the Archive, Dr. Barbara…
The Crew of the USS Enterprise
The crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise poses for their photograph in the Grand Ballroom at their celebratory ships party dinner.
The first legal drink at the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel, 1933
Black and white photograph depicting prominent author Benjamin DeCasseres just before taking the first legal drink at the Waldorf=Astoria on Park Avenue in 1933. By arrangement of United Press, Mr. DeCasseres waited in one of the Hotel's private…
The General Motors "Motorama" (1933)
A view of the first General Motors "Motorama" held in our Grand Ballroom in 1933.
The Grand Ballroom during Time Magazine's 40th Anniversary Party
The Grand Ballroom as it was during Time Magazine's 40th Anniversary party. The design of the Grand Ballroom was commissioned by Oliver Smith and was in place from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s.
