Construction Workers Atop a Steel Beam
Waldorf Astoria Hotel -- 1930-1940
Architecture -- Art Deco
Three construction workers are valiantly hoisted atop a steel beam as they give the photographer a wave. The building located behind the three gentleman is The Benjamin Hotel; adjacent to the Benjamin Hotel was the Loew's Theatre, known today as the Hilton Double-Tree.
Erin Allsop, Archivist
Photographs -- Construction -- 1929-1931
1930
Copyright is held by the Waldorf Astoria New York
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Conrad Hilton and Frank Wangeman admire the newly installed Park Avenue Lobby chandelier in 1962.
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 required 31 people to bring this design to live over the course of three months and four days. This chandelier was removed in 2011 upon a recent renovation of the Park Avenue lobby.
Erin Allsop
Buildings Collection
February 6, 1962
Copyright is held by the Waldorf Astoria New York unless otherwise noted.
Black & White Photograph
06.02.032
Mrs. Jean MacArthur attends the Grand Ballroom restoration, 1983
MacArthur, Jean Faircloth
Black and white photograph depicting the General’s widow, Mrs. Douglas MacArthur, and General Manager Joseph Rantisi in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel on August 5, 1983. For decades Art Deco ornamental grilles, part of the Grand Ballroom’s original design scheme, had been concealed by 30-foot canvas murals, the removal of which (by workers on 30-foot-high cherry pickers) marked the turning point in a $2 million restoration of the famous space. The murals were later donated to the Christ Church at Park Avenue and 60th Street in Manhattan.
1983-08-05
Photographs | Buildings Collection
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StillImage
06.02.055
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel -- 1931-present
Grand Ballroom
Art Deco Style Rendering of the Park Avenue Waldorf=Astoria
Black and white photographic representation of an Art-Deco rendering depicting the Park Avenue Waldorf=Astoria Hotel, date unknown.
Photographs | Buildings Collection
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StillImage
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel -- 1931-present
"The Waldorf's Restored Starlight Roof"
Black and white photograph depicting the newly restored Starlight Roof at the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel, 1973.
1973
Photographs | Buildings Collection
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StillImage
06.02.063
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel -- 1931-present
Starlight Roof
"The Starlight Roof - Mural Decorations by Victor White"
Mural painting and decoration
Black and white photograph depicting the murals in the Starlight Roof at the Waldorf=Astoria from the 1935 publication "The Waldorf-Astoria" by Richard Averill Smith.
The mural decorations of the Starlight Roof are the work of the American painter, Victor White. The walls at the ends of the garden are golden-hued mirrors bearing tropical motifs in red and pale green. On the walls of the central portion and dance floor of the room, White created colored-glass mosaics depicting tropical plants, flowers and birds against sand-colored plaster.
Smith, Richard Averill
The Waldorf-Astoria
1934
White, Victor
Histories & Publications
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StillImage
06.02.063
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel -- 1931-present
Starlight Roof
Starlight Roof Decorated for an event
Black and white photograph depicting the Starlight Roof decorated for an event at the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel, date unknown.
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StillImage
06.02.063
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel -- 1931-present
Starlight Roof
Waldorf=Astoria Artistic Photographic Rendering
Black and white photographic representation depicting the Park Avenue Waldorf=Astoria Hotel, date unknown.
Weissberg, Will
Photographs | Buildings Collection
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StillImage
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel -- 1931-present