Summer residence of UN General Secretary Dag Hammarskjöld, Backåkra, Sweden Artist: Torkel Lindeberg

Summer residence of UN General Secretary Dag Hammarskjöld, Backåkra, Sweden Artist: Torkel Lindeberg

2-323-848 - Torkel Lindeberg/Historisk Bildbyrå/Mustang media/Heritage Images

Summer residence of UN General Secretary Dag Hammarskjöld, Backåkra, Sweden. Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) was General Secretary of the United Nations from 1953 until his death in a plane crash in 1961. The house in Backåkra, a small fishing village in Ystad, southern Sweden, in which Hammarskjöld spent his summers, has been turned into a museum devoted to his tenure as General Secretary.


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People Information

Creator
  1. Torkel Lindeberg, attributed to: Swedish: Photographer
People Related
  1. Dag Hammarskjöld: Swedish: diplomat, UN General Secretary

Medium
  1. Photograph

Geographic Hierarchy

World Europe Sweden

  1. 62 00 00 N , 015 00 00 E

World Europe Sweden Skåne Ystad

  1. 55 25 00 N , 013 49 00 E

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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4720x3672
File Size : 50,777kb


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  1. HID04007.jpg
  1. 0660000707
  1. 2-323-848
  1. 2323848
  1. HID04007


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