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Photo, Print, Drawing International Signs. Permanent Committee on Road Traffic.

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Title

  • International Signs. Permanent Committee on Road Traffic.

Summary

  • The Organisation for Communications and Transit was a technical body of the League of Nations responsible for promoting international cooperation in such areas as international road traffic, rail transport and inland navigation, ports and maritime navigation, unification of road signals and maritime signals, simplification of passports and visa procedures, and transmission of electric power across national frontiers. The organization established a number of permanent and temporary committees for specific policy areas, including the Permanent Committee on Road Traffic. The Organisation for Communications and Transit held major conferences in Barcelona in 1921 and in Geneva in 1923 to conclude conventions on ports and railways. The organization also took the lead in working with member states of the League to draw up the 1931 Convention on the Unification of Road Signals. Shown here is a system of international road signs and hand signals proposed by the Permanent Committee on Road Traffic. The document is from the archives of the League, which were transferred to the United Nations in 1946 and are housed at the UN office in Geneva. They were inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World register in 2010.

Names

  • League of Nations. Organisation for Communications and Transit Creator.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1928.

Headings

  • -  1928
  • -  Automobiles
  • -  Memory of the World
  • -  Signs and symbols
  • -  Traffic regulations

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 62 x 48.7 centimeters.
  • -  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: League of Nations, Archives Catalogue, UNOG Library, Communications and Transit Section, 1919--1946, http://biblio-archive.unog.ch/detail.aspx?ID=411. External
  • -  Original resource at: United Nations Office at Geneva Library.
  • -  Content in French.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • League of Nations Archives

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021670574

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

League Of Nations. Organisation For Communications And Transit Creator. International Signs. Permanent Committee on Road Traffic. , 1928. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670574/.

APA citation style:

League Of Nations. Organisation For Communications And Transit Creator. (1928) International Signs. Permanent Committee on Road Traffic. , 1928. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670574/.

MLA citation style:

League Of Nations. Organisation For Communications And Transit Creator. International Signs. Permanent Committee on Road Traffic. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670574/>.