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Item
Title
D131642-7
Date(s)
- 1961-07-14 (Creation)
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Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
Home bomb shelter. Small child with helmet is standing on the top of an underground bomb shelter in this July, 1961, photograph. The child is grinning at an older boy and his bicycle. Tall pipe is believed to be part of ventilation system. As fears of nuclear attack ran high in the early 1960's, many homeowners chose to construct bomb shelters to protect their families from fallout. Ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association.
Bombproof construction; Air raid shelters--Fircrest; Civil defense--Fircrest; Atomic bombs; Nuclear fallout; Houses--Fircrest--1960-1970; Children;