Photos & images – Dag Hammarskjöld 1953-1955

Retiring Secretary-General Trygve Lie greets Dag Hammarskjöld welcome at Idlewild Airport in New York, 1953. (Photo: UN/DPI)

Dag Hammarskjöld is sworn in as UN Secretary-General, 10 April 1953. (Photo: UN/DPI)

Dag Hammarskjöld is sworn in as UN Secretary-General, 10 April 1953. (Photo: UN/DPI)

Dag Hammarskjöld outside the UN building in New York, 1953. (Photo: UN/DPI)

Dag Hammarskjöld, 1953. (Photo: UN/DPI)

Dag Hammarskjöld at a press conference, 1954. (Photo: UN/DPI)

Dag Hammarskjöld in his apartment on the 38th floor of the Secretariat building, 1954. (Photo: UN/DPI)

William Ramallo, Dag Hammarskjöld, and Sir Pierson Dixon before the trip to China, 1954. (Photo: UN/DPI)

Secretary-General Hammarskjöld during a meeting, 1954. (Photo: UN/DPI)

Journalist Thomas J. Hamilton interviews Dag Hammarskjöld, 1954. (Photo: UN/DPI)

U.S. UN ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. with Dag Hammarskjöld, 1954. (Photo: UN/DPI)

Press conference with Dag Hammarskjöld before his departure to China, 1954. (Photo: UN/DPI)

Statement by Dag Hammarskjöld concerning the prisoners in China, 1954. (Photo: UN/DPI)

Dag Hammarskjöld with Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, 1955. (Photo: UN/DPI)

Chinese Prime Minister Chou En-Lai with Dag Hammarskjöld, 1955. (Photo: UN/DPI)

Dag Hammarskjöld reads at the Swedish Embassy in Peking, 1955. (Photo: UN/DPI)

Dag Hammarskjöld returns from Peking, 1955. (Photo: UN/DPI)

Dag Hammarskjöld with Under-Secretary Ralph Bunche, 1955. (Photo: UN/DPI)