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A press release dated September 10, 1969 announcing the opening of the new Empire Room on September 18, 1969. Details of the interior design by Ellen Lehman McClusky and relocation across the Foyer to the former site of the Sert Room are included. …

A postcard depicting the Empire Room after its renovation and relocation in 1969. On the reverse, the card reads: "New York City's most spectacular showcase of the stars. Superb dining at dinner and supper. Continuous dancing." In the press release…

Black and white photograph depicting Conrad Hilton (right) with New Mexico Governor Edwin L. Mechem (left) during a reception for a group of New Mexico businessmen at The Waldorf on May 17, 1962. When a supervisory employee (who had been tending bar…

Black and white photograph depicting (from left to right) Conrad N. Hilton, chairman of the board of Hilton Hotels Corporation, former astronaut John Glenn, Dr. Wernher von Braun, director of the Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Alabama,…

Maurice Chevalier and Benny Goodman are having a laugh while posing for the camera in the Empire Room of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in 1966.

Black and white photograph showing men enjoying their meals in the restaurant of The Men's Bar Restaurant in 1959. The Bull and Bear currently located on the corner of Lexington Ave. and 49th Street would open in 1960.

Black and white photograph depicting the place setting at the Bull and Bear Bar and Restaurant.

Black and white photograph depicting Willy Brandt broadcasting a speech from the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel as New York Mayor Robert F. Wagner looks on, date unknown.