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A view of the visitor's lobby of the General Assembly building during the high-level week of the seventy-second session.
A view of the United Nations emblem in the General Assembly Hall on the first day of the Assembly's seventy-third general debate.
A wide view of the General Assembly Hall at UN Headquarters.
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Unique ID UN7ALB50401 
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Headline 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. 
Unique Identifier 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
File size 1.42 MB