UN Headquarters

Clearing Ground for United Nations Permanent Headquarters

23 July 1947

A scene on the United Nations permanent site in New York showing demolition work in progress on 45th Street, looking west towards First Avenue. In the background, at right, the 24-story Central Zone Building can be seen and, at the left, the 16-story Allied Art Building. In foreground the old Wilson and Co. plant is being demolished and the old Swift & Co. plant, at left, will also be cleared. Complete levelling of the site is expected to take approximately four months.

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