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The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City: Park Avenue Foyer – Antique Print

The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City: Park Avenue Foyer, c1933. — historic photograph
The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City: Park Avenue Foyer, c1933.. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few hotel interiors of the early 1930s carried as much ambition as the Park Avenue foyer of the Waldorf-Astoria, shown here around 1933. The hotel had moved uptown to a new Park Avenue building at about 49th and 50th Streets in 1931, after the older Waldorf and Astoria hotels on Fifth Avenue at Thirty-fourth Street were demolished to make way for the Empire State Building. Designed by Schultze and Weaver in the Art Deco style, the building was meant to project luxury and confidence even as the Depression deepened. The caption information for this view is not fully confirmed, so details about the room should be checked against other sources.

Created / publishedc1933.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesJ14152 U.S. Copyright Office No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Hotels; Interiors.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,218 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-149236

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