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Archival Collections

The League of Nations Archives are housed at the United Nations Office in Geneva Library

Records of the predecessor organizations :



1. International Penal and Penitentiary Commission
2. Preparatory Commission for United Nations
3. United Nations Conference on the international Organization
4. United Nations Information Organization
5. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
   Country missions
   • Austria Mission
   • Belgium Mission
   • Byelorussia Mission
   • China Office
   • Czechoslovakia Mission
   • Denmark Mission
   • Ethiopia Mission
   • Finland Mission
   • Germany Mission
   • Greece Mission
   • Hawaii Procurement Office
   • Hungary Mission
   • India Mission
   • Italy Mission
   • Korea Mission
   • Latin America Procurement Offices
   • Luxembourg Mission
   • Mission to the Dodecanese Islands
   • Norway Mission
   • Offices in France
   • Philippine Mission
   • Poland Mission
   • South West Pacific Area Office
   • Sweden Mission
   • Switzerland Mission
   • Turkey Mission
   • Ukraine Mission
   • Balkan Mission and Middle East Office
   • Yugoslavia Mission
   European Regional Office
   • ERO Registry Files
   • ERO Subject Files
   • Trieste Port Office
   Office Headquarters
   • Bureau of Administration
   • Bureau of Areas
   • Bureau of Services
   • Bureau of Supply
   • Controller and Public Information
   • Office of the Historian
   • Washington DC Headquarters
   International Refugee Organisation
   UNRRA Photographs
6. United Nations Temporary London Office

Records of United Nations Secretaries-General and Secretariat departments:



7. Department for Disarmament Affairs
8. Department of Administrative and Financial Services
9. Department of Conference and General Services
10. Department of Economic Affairs
11. Department of International Economic and Social Affairs
12. Department of Political Affairs, Trusteeship, and Decolonization
13. Department of Political and General Assembly Affairs
    Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Political and General Assembly Affairs
14. Department of Political and Security Council Affairs
    Field Operations Section
    Office of the Under-Secretary-General and Assistant-Secretary-General
    Political Affairs Section
    Security Council and Political Committees Division
    Special Assignments Bureau
15. Department of Special Political Affairs
    Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs
16. Department of Social Affairs
17. Executive Office of the Secretary-General
    Secretary-General Executive Office
    United Nations Secretaries-General Records
18. Office for Inter-Agency Affairs and Coordination
19. Office for Special Political Questions
20. Office of Conference Services
21. Office of Financial Services
22. Office of General Services
22a. Building Management Service
22b. Field Service and Successory Bodies
22c. Office of the Assistant Secretary-General
22d. Special Assignments Bureau
23. Office of Legal Affairs
24. Office of Personnel
25. Offfice of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Law of the Sea
26. Protocol and Liaison Office
27. Registry Section
28. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold
29. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim
30. Secretary-General Trygve Lie
31. Secretary-General U Thant




Records of United Nations Missions, Commissions and related:



32. Advisory Council in Somaliland
33. Commission for Indonesia
34. Commission for India and Pakistan
35. Commission for Eritrea
36. Commission for the Investigation of Greek Frontier Incidents
37. Commission for the Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea
38. Commission of Investigation into the Death of Dag Hammarskjold, the Secretary-General, and Members of his party
39. Commission on the Racial Situation in the Union of South Africa
40. Commissioner in Libya
41. Conciliation Commission for Palestine
42. Emergency Force 1
43. Emergency Force 2
44. Fact-Finding Mission to South Vietnam
45. India, Pakistan Observation Mission
46. Korean Reconstruction Agency
47. Malaysian Mission
48. Mediator and Acting Mediator for Palestine
49. Mediator in Cyprus
50. Memorial Cemetery in Korea
51. Middle East Mission
52. Military Observers in Greece
53. Mission of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General to Cambodia and Thailand
54. Observation Group in Lebanon
55. Operation in Congo
56. Palestine Commission
57. Plebiscite Administrator for Jammu and Kashmir
58. Plebiscite Commissioner of the Trust Territory of Togoland under British Administration
59. Relief Operation, Bangladesh
60. Reporting Mission of the Representative of the Secretary General in the Dominican Republic
61. Representative in West Irian
62. Security Council Mission to Cambodia and Vietnam
63. Special Committee on Palestine
64. Special Committee on the Balkans
65. Special Representative in Amman, Jordan
66. Special Representative of the Secretary-General to Cambodia and Thailand
67. Suez Canal Clearance Operations
68. Temporary Authority in West Irian
69. Temporary Commission on Korea
70. Truce Supervision Organization in Palestine
71. Truce Commission for Palestine
72. Visiting Mission to Trust Territories in East Africa
73. War Crimes Commission
74. Yemen Observation Mission


Records of related organizations and conferences:



75. Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations Interested in Migration (1950)
76. United Nations Fund for Population Activities
77. United Nations Institute for Training and Research
78. International Statistical Conference (1947)
79. Round Table Conference (1949)
80. United Nations Tin Conference (1950)
81. UNICEF Emergency Operations Unit
82. UNICEF Office of the Executive Director