Scene from a reception on the uptown campus' Academic Podium for visiting speaker, U Thant, who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971. At the time of his appointment as Acting Secretary-General of the United Nations, U Thant had been Permanent Representative of Burma to the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador (1957-1961). He visited the university on the occasion of the University Seminar on Peaceful Changes, 1966.

Date created

• 1966

Type

• Image

Creator

• University at Albany

Master Format

• TIF

Identifier

• nam_ua_390_pm_017983

Subject

• Thant, U, 1909-1974
• University Seminar on Peaceful Changes
• Buildings -- Uptown Campus
• Academic Podium
• Speeches, addresses, etc.
• United Nations. Secretary-General
• University Archives Photographs
• Receptions
• Uptown Campus

License

• Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0

  

ITEM CONTEXT

Collection

University Photograph Collection

Scope and Contents

Collecting area

• This collection is part of the University Archives