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Fallout Shelter in Garden House

  • 1958

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Description

This image shows a drawing of a proposed family fallout shelter incorporated into a garden house from the Federal Civil Defense Administration. This document was digitized by teachers in our Primarily Teaching 2013 Summer Workshop at our Boston location.

Citation

This primary source comes from the Records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers.

National Archives Identifier: 7419779

Full Citation: Fallout Shelter in Garden House; 1958; Civil Defense Photographs, 1951 – 1961, 1951 – 1961; Construction Project Photographs , 1927 – 1981; Records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers, Record Group 77; National Archives at Boston (RE-BO), Waltham, MA. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/document/fallout-shelter-garden-house/, April 16, 2026]

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