Dinner menu from the original Waldor-Astoria Hotel, 1900. The hotel was demolished to make way for the Empire State Building.

West 33rd Street, Manhattan, 1911; Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, left. Knickerbocker Trust, center. Piano retailer, right.

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This is the cruiser USS Raleigh, credited with firing the first shots in the Battle of Manila Bay, Philippines, during the Spanish-American War. In April 1899, 120 sailors from the Raleigh were toasted at a banquet held for them in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

Dinner given for a founder of US Steel at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 1909.

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The US Senate conducted an inquiry into the sinking of the Titanic. The commission's meetings, shown in this photo, took place at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in April 1912. John Jacob Astor IV was one of the people who was lost.

The main dining room on the Salon deck of the Titanic, 1912.

Here is a Titanic lifeboat pulling up alongside the Carpathia. Look how few people it holds.

As mentioned in this thread, there was an elaborate dinner for the USS Raleigh crew at the Waldorf-Astoria in 1899, after their return from victory in the Philippines. The Raleigh returned to Pacific waters; and from the looks of this officers' dinner menu, they had a nice time.