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Invitation for the Explorer's Club's Pioneers of Aviation dinner held in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on December 10, 1968. Lowell Thomas acted as Master of Ceremonies.

The Waldorf=Astoria was featured as a favorite of extended-stay hotel guests in The Wall Street Journal article “When Home Is Where The Hotel Is”. The Wall Street Journal, which had a then-circulation of 2,117,796, addressed both the…

Black and white photograph depicting guests entering the famed showroom and supper club the Empire Room, Waldorf=Astoria Hotel, date unknown.

Color photograph depicting the celebration of First Lady Betty Ford's birthday at the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel, April 8, 1976.

Black and white photograph depicting Nina Kukharchuk, wife of Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev greeted by Susan Wagner, wife of New York Mayor Robert F. Wagner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, October 1, 1959. Also pictured are Khrushchev's daughters…

Black and white photograph depicting the five-star General's flag, which was ordered especially for General Douglas MacArthur upon his arrival from Japan in 1951. This flag flew over the Park Avenue entrance to the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel and, along…

Floor Covering Weekly Clipping from March 8, 1965 displaying the newly placed Terrazzo Vinyl Flooring on the Main Floor of the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel.

"TERRAZZO VINYL by Amtico was chosen by Waldorf-Astoria management with an eye to heavy traffic…

Black and white photograph from the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner featuring Francis Cardinal Spellman, then Vice President Richard Nixon and Charles Silver. Photographed in the West Foyer, 1956.