Meditation Room - Symbol of Hammarskjold's Belief in U.N.
Photograph
Meditation Room - Symbol of Hammarskjold's Belief in U.N.
1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 5/16 × 6 7/16 in. (23.7 × 16.3 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0535
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso, TC: 9-61 4) MEDITATION ROOM - SYMBOL OF HAMMARSKJOLD'S BELIEF IN U.N.: \ Just off the main foyer of the U.N. Headquarters is a small austere prayer \ room for the use of the organization's multi-national delegates. \ Hammarskjold believed in the power of the atmosphere of this room just as \ he believed that the United Nations was a "quiet room to which the nations \ can come for the quiet settling...of their disputes...". The stark iron-ore \ slab in the center was a gift from his homeland, Sweden. The fresco is a \ gift of Swedish artist Bo Beskow. \ Credit: Sergio Larrain © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS
Stamped in black ink in rectangle on verso, C: Photograph By \ Sergio Larrain \ © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS \ 15 West 47th Street, N.Y.C. 36
Stamped in black ink in rectangle on verso, C: Photograph By \ Sergio Larrain \ © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS \ 15 West 47th Street, N.Y.C. 36
