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Steel workers hoist girder in place in Meeting Hall Area. Construction is scheduled to be completed in June 1951. [no date]
The temporary North Lawn building will house the General Assembly, conference facilities and the offices of the Secretary-General and staff during the renovations of United Nations Headquarters under the Capital Master Plan.
Erection of the steel framework for the 39-story Secretariat Building. The Building, which will contain the General Assembly Hall and a Conference Area in addition to office space, is expected to be ready for occupancy by the 3,000 members of the UN Secretariat in the autumn of 1950. Because of the narrowness (72 feet wide by 287 feet long) some of the largest wind braces ever developed will be used to keep the structure from swaying. Some of the concrete piers in which the steel is anchored extended forty feet into the earth. In addition to the Secretariat building the Permanent Headquarters will comprise two other units, plans for which are now nearing completion. Two workmen climbing atop the first 20-foot riveted steel column erected, to unfurl the United Nations Flag.
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Headline Corner-Stone Laying Ceremony Marks United Nations' Fourth Birthday 
Caption Description The corner-stone of the United Nations Permanent Headquarters was laid on United Nations Day - 24 October – at a special open-air General Assembly meeting held on the site of the Headquarters building in Manhattan, New York.  The ceremony, marking the Fourth Anniversary of the United Nations, was attended by President Harry S. Truman who was the principal speaker.  Secretary-General Trygve Lie deposited in the stone copies of the United Nations Charter and of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
PICTURE SHOWS:  Mr. Lie, accompanied by Wallace K. Harrison, Chief Architect, depositing documents in metal box inside the cornerstone. 
Unique Identifier UN7481422 
NICA ID 333112 
Production Date 10/24/1949 9:04:51 PM 
City/Location New York
Country United States of America
Credit UN Photo
File size 3.68 MB