In this 1961 photograph, a civil defense exhibit displays survival supplies for a fallout shelter. Designed to protect its inhabitants from nuclear, biological, or chemical attack, a fallout shelter was critical to the civil defense plans developed during the Cold War of the 1950s and 60s.
Survival Supplies for the Well-Stocked Fallout Shelter
- 1961
Description
This primary source comes from the Records of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
National Archives Identifier: 542103
Full Citation: 311-D-9(2); Photograph of Survival Supplies for the Well-Stocked Fallout Shelter; 1961; Photographs of Civil Defense Personnel and Activities, 1964–1986; Records of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Record Group 311; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/document/survival-supplies-well-stocked-fallout-shelter/, April 29, 2026]
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