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A view of the Japanese Peace Bell Garden with the trees in Autumn colors. The Peace Bell is a gift to the United Nations by the UN Association of Japan.

The flags outside UN Headquarters are raised manually by UN Security Officers every weekday morning at approximately 8 am and lowered every weekday at around 4 pm, except in cases of bad weather. The…

At the RKO Building in New York City, Consultant Architects look over a model of UN site prior to a press conference. Left to right are members of Board of Design Consultants: G.A. Soilleux,…

Public studying a scale model of proposed New York City plan for permanent UN Headquarters site

At a press conference, architects get together in a huddle, posing for Leo Rosenthal, a photographer for Pix.

Sven Markelius, Sweden, Architect on the 10-member Board of Design Consultants assisting Wallace K. Harrison, Director of Planning in the development of architectural plans for the building of United…

The late architect Julio Vilamajo, of Uruguay, formerly one of the ten members of the Board of Design Consultants.

Oscar Niemeyer, Brazil, architect on the 10-member Board of Design Consultants assisting Wallace K. Harrison, Director of Planning, in the development of architectural plans for the building of…

Decorating the wall at left is the specially designed and woven tapestry given by Belgium to the UN in 1954. The largest tapestry ever woven, it measures 43 1/2 by 28 1/2 feet. Its themes are peace,…

A view of the sign UN lit up on the Secretariat Building, part of UN Headquarters in New York. [No exact date]

A woman rests in her home in Xai-Xai, Gaza Province, Mozambique. She is a patient at the Xai-Xai Day Care Clinic, a centre specialized in treating parents and children living with HIV/AIDS and…

Cherry blossoms on the campus of UN Headquarters. In the background are the forty-storey Secretariat building and the curving General Assembly building, with part of the New York skyline.