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Glen McCreary Photographs of United Nations Conference on International
Organization
1945
SFP 80
SFP 80
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Contributing Institution:
San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 557-4567
sfhistory@sfpl.org
Title: Glen McCreary Photographs of United Nations Conference on International
Organization
Creator:
McCreary, Glen
Identifier/Call Number: SFP 80
Physical Description:
1 manuscript box
(o.5 cubic feet)
Date: 1945
Abstract: This collection
consists of two albums along with loose photographs for a total of 127 black and white
gelatin silver prints taken of the U.N. Organizing Conference held in San Francisco from
April 25 through June 26, 1945. All photographs were taken by Glen McCreary, a U.S. Army
photographer assigned to cover the conference or by his associates. Also included is a
printed booklet entitled "A Pictorial Record of the Delegates to the United Nations
Conference on International Organization".
Physical Location: The collection is stored
onsite.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English.
The collection is available for use during Photo Desk hours. Collections that are stored
offsite should be requested 48 hours in advance.
All requests for permission to publish from photographs must be submitted in writing to the
Photo Curator. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the San Francisco Public
Library as the owner of the physical items.
[Identification of item], Glen McCreary Photographs of United Nations Conference on
International Organization (SFP 80), San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public
Library.
Gift from Glen McCreary in August, 1995.
Glen E. McCreary was born on June 23rd, 1914 in Portland, Oregon. He enlisted with the
United States Army in 1940, and was an US Army photographer active during World War II,
serving as a Signal Corps Photographer in Alaska from June 1941 until March 1945. After the
war he was assigned to the Photo Lab in the San Francisco Presidio, and was subsequently
loaned to the State Department to work at the United Nations Conference on International
Organization along with other Army and Navy photographers. As a member of the photographic
pool he and his colleagues covered the various events and activities of the U.N. Conference.
He married Mary Elizabeth Cleary on June 24th, 1953 and they had two children, Paula Jean
McCreary Kelly and Scott Thane McCreary. Glen passed away on January 9th, 2010.
This collection consists of two albums along with loose photographs for a total of 127
black and white gelatin silver prints taken of the U.N. Organizing Conference held in San
Francisco from April 25 through June 26, 1945. Subjects of significance include heads of
state and delegates of the participating countries such as President Harry S. Truman, US
Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr., British Prime Minister Clement Richard Atlee,
and Soviet Representative Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov, among others. Also depicted are
views of the conference, including Plenary sessions in the San Francisco War Memorial Opera
House and the empty Charter signing desk in the adjacent Herbst Theater. Loose photographs,
in addition to the aforementioned subjects, depict members of other delegations and moments
of the conference. Some photographs have handwritten labels in pencil on their reverse. Also
included is a printed booklet entitled "A Pictorial Record of the Delegates to the United
Nations Conference on International Organization", which contains photographs of each of the
50 country delegations, often in group photos.
This collection is arranged into two bound albums followed by three folders of loose prints
and one printed booklet.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
United Nations Conference on International Organization -- 1945 -- San
Francisco, Calif.
United Nations -- San Francisco, Calif.
Photographic prints.
Photograph albums.
Snapshots.
United Nations Conference on International Organization
(1945) (San Francisco, Calif.)