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UN7ALB50401
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Housekeeping at United Nations Headquarters
Caption Description
As visitors to UN Headquarters are well aware, the Secretariat building is really a “glass house” and there are breath-taking picture window views from the General Assembly and Conference buildings. Keeping these glass facades shining is a continuous operation, employing nine men all year long. Every 40 days, each of the 5,400 double-hung windows and 5,400 spandrels in the 39-story Secretariat building gets washed. There are, in addition, 560 panes of projected windows on the four floors devoted exclusively to mechanical equipment devoted in operation of the buildings. To provide an unmarred panorama of the East River, the 25-foot high plate-glass window-walls in the three Council chambers and conference rooms in the next building are cleaned every three days. It takes scaffoldings and high ladders to do this job. And a special apparatus—the electrically-driven telescope ladder, working like an elevator, shown here—is needed for washing the 45-foot high picture window at the south end of the Assembly building.
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UN7501348
NICA ID
353118
Production Date
10/01/1953 10:57:36 PM
City/Location
New York
Country
United States of America
Credit
UN Photo/Albert Fox