Five Decades of Guided Tours

Economic and Social Council Chamber, 1953

Tour guide with group, 1955

Trusteeship Council Chamber, 1963

Security Council Chamber, 1969

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Tour guide with group, 1972

Chinese Ivory Carving, 1977

Chinese Ivory Carving, 1983

Zanetti Mural, 1993

Disarmament exhibit, 2000

Tours and Tourists

Tour guide with a school group in the Security Council Chamber

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School children in the Security Council Chamber

School children at the disarmament exhibit

Visitors in front of the Norman Rockwell mosaic

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Group of visitors

Japanese tourists in front of the Zanetti Mural

Mandarin tour

Swedish tour

Guides with Senior UN Officials

Tour guides with Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, 1953

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Tour guides with Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, 1988

Tour guides with Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 1995

Tour guide with Secretary-General Kofi Annan, 1998

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Tour guides after a briefing with Olara Otunnu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict

Shashi Tharoor, Interim Head of the Department of Public Information (DPI), Thérèse Gastaut, Director, Public Affairs Division, DPI, and Lyutha Al-Mughairy, Chief, Public Liaison Service, DPI, welcoming the new class of tour guides, 2001

Mrs. Annan in an informal dialogue session with the guides, 2001

Uniforms

The 1950s look

Evan Picone design, 1969

Edith Head design, 1977

Christian Dior design, 1982

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Harvé Benard design, 1985

Benetton design, 1988 (guides with Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar)

Jones New York design, 1995

Mondrian and Valleverde designs, 2001

Briefings

Morning briefing

Briefing on anti-personnel landmines

Morning briefing

Morning briefing

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Pat Duffy briefs the guides on public speaking

Guides at Work

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Guides at Rest

Guides' Lounge, 1955

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Guides' Lounge, 1958

Guides' Lounge, 1959

Guides' Lounge, 1991

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Guides' Lounge, 2000

Guides' Lounge, 2000

40th Anniversary of Guided Tours

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