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A magazine article showing Alice and her friends visiting various places in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel including Peacock Alley, the Park Avenue Lobby and the Terminal Barber Shop.

From left to right in this photograph are:
Mrs. Trudy Cooper, Astronaut Gordon Cooper, NYC Mayor Frank Wagner, Vice President Lyndon Johnson, and Mrs. Wagner at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in honor of Astronaut Coopers successful Mercury Mission…

Astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter stands with his family outside of the Waldorf Astoria hotel to answer a few questions from news reporters. They were here at the hotel attending the luncheon in his honor on June 5, 1962.

Black and white photograph depicting the Grand Ballroom during a citywide blackout on November 9, 1965. The Waldorf=Astoria continued to serve dinner by candlelight.

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,…

The Park Avenue chandelier was installed on Tuesday, February 6th, 1962 as was designed by Joe Travisano upon request by Greene Brothers, Inc., New York City. This chandelier was 10 feet long and 10 feet wide and featured 104 electric candles. It…

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 Conrad N. Hilton, Chairman of Hilton Hotels Corporation and Chairman and President of Hilton International Co., reviewing a plaque honoring President Herbert Hoover and his thirty-year residence at the Waldorf…