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Flow chart showing the General Assembly and other UN organs engaging in “Economic and Social Cooperation” for a globe drawn as a swinging pendulum.

Plate 1. Department of State, Proposals for a General International Organization as Developed at Dumbarton Oaks, 1944 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1945).

Paperclip for scale and lapel pin with a laureled globe and words: “San Francisco 1945 * The United Nations Conference on International Organization.”

Plate 2. Donal McLaughlin, lapel pin for admission to The United Nations Conference on International Organization. McLaughlin’s team introduced the laureled globe that became the symbol of the UN. Courtesy of Brian McLaughlin and Donna Firer.

Rendering of empty round table on round carpet with chairs and flags surrounding it, labeled “Setting for Signing the United Nations Charter.”

Plate 3. Perspectival drawing of Donal McLaughlin’s set-up for the signing of the UN Charter, 1945. Courtesy of Brian McLaughlin and Donna Firer.

Photograph of headphones, microphone, and yellow and red light bulbs attached on the podium.

Plate 4. Prosecution stand with red and yellow lights for the simultaneous interpretation system, 1945. Photograph by Raymond D’Addario. City Archives Nuremberg A 65/II RA-51-D.

Site plan showing the placement of different buildings and how they connect to highways and streets.

Plate 5. Le Corbusier, proposal for the UN Headquarters. Copyright F.L.C. / ADAGP, Paris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 2023.

Watercolor of the interior of an empty Security Council Chamber looking toward an empty auditorium.

Plate 6. Arnstein Arneberg, perspectival drawing of Security Council, n.d. Arnstein Rynning Arneberg, NAMT.aar621.002. Courtesy of the Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, Oslo, Norway.

Postcard of the ECOSOC Chamber from the press gallery looking over the horseshoe table with geometric woven curtains behind it.

Plate 7. Postcard of the Economic and Social Council Chamber, 1952. Statens centrum för arkitektur och design (ArkDes), Stockholm, Sweden.

Drawing of Finn Juhl’s proposal for a ceiling grid to mount flags.

Plate 8. Finn Juhl, axonometric drawing of the ceiling at the Trusteeship Council Chamber, 1951. Courtesy of the Designmuseum Danmark.

Plan of the ECOSOC Chamber, half-colored and half-drawn, showing the horseshoe table with chairs around it and two seating areas across from it.

Plate 9. Finn Juhl, plan of the Trusteeship Council Chamber, 1951. Courtesy of the Designmuseum Danmark.

Watercolor of the rostrum at the temporary headquarters with the UN symbol mounted before a backdrop drape.

Plate 10. Natalie de Blois, watercolor of the refurbished interior of the New York City Building for the Second Session of the First General Assembly of the United Nations, 1946. Natalie de Blois Architectural Collection, Ms2007–017, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia.

Exterior photograph of exhibition building with the UN emblem on the corner cornice and two people standing outside.

Plate 11. Photograph showing the exhibition building used for the UN Regional Seminar and International Exhibition in New Delhi, 1954. Photograph by Ernest Weissmann. Courtesy of the Frances Loeb Library, Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Photograph of the interior of an empty meeting room with two concentric circular tables and wooden strips on the curved walls.

Plate 12. Interior view of the Caracol, showing circular table, wooden slats, and interpretation booths. Courtesy of the Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), División de Documentos y Publicaciones, Santiago, Chile.

Plan of an eye-shaped building, half-colored and half-drawn; on the right side is a plenary hall with a parliament-like semicircular seating area.

Plate 13. Finn Juhl, plan for the Council of Europe Pavilion, 1958. Courtesy of the Designmuseum Danmark.

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