Civil Defense Photographs

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Camp Ali State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PFC Brandon E. Loveless, USMC Release Status: Released to Public Combined Mi More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Camp Ali State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PFC Brandon E. Loveless, USMC Release Status: Released to Public Combined Mi More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Iraq Civil Defense Corps Academy State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Reynaldo Ramon, USAF Release Status: Released to More

Original Artwork for World War II Posters Public domain photograph - United States military, propaganda free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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Original Caption: Evacuees from Bellows Falls, Vermont, are being registered in Windsor, Vermont where they were taken by bus. Note the tags for labeling both adults and children. Civil Defense Photographs

Original caption: The nearly completed prototype basement fallout shelter in Bayonne, New Jersey, is viewed by local, State and Federal Civil Defense Officials. The shelter was officially opened for inspection More

This photograph depicts the entrance to the "Alert America" exhibition, which educated the public about civil defense, and recruited volunteers to train for specific civil defense programs and positions. Civil More

Original caption: An industrial shelter drill is observed by director of U.S. Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization, Leo A. Hoegh (right). Drill took place August 26 at Hamilton Standard, division of Unit More

Original caption: Maine’s Civil Defense and Public Safety Agency has recently acquired seven Mobile Feeding Units, each equipped to feed several thousand on an emergency basis wherever the need exists throughou More

This photograph depicts Mr. Civil Defense, a character that was symbolic of the efforts of thousands of volunteers to provide the nation with a strong civil defense, and a young admirer. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts the unveiling of the New Jersey Division of Civil Defense and Disaster Control rescue training school. Civil Defense Photographs

Original caption: Mrs. Edmund S. Muskie and daughter, Ellen, put the finishing touches to their Grandma’s Pantry, a three-day food and water supply for emergencies, in their shelter area at Blaine House. Civil More

Original caption: Learning about Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) at Maine’s Fifth Staff College. A lecture with the use of lively visual aids as shown in the photo was conducted by a New England Teleph More

This photograph depicts the first inter-denominational service in Maine, with Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant attendees. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts an Army H-21 helicopter as it carries a Helicop-Hut Air Traffic Control Set to an airfield. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts participants in the emergency mass feeding course held at Fort Devens in Massachusetts. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts Governor Robert Stafford of Vermont as he cuts a ribbon in front of a prototype fallout shelter constructed in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wackerman of Montpelier. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts different training exercises at the first Light Duty Rescue Instructor Course, held exclusively for women, facilitated by the Federal Civil Defense Administration Rescue Instructor Schoo More

This poster was designed to encourage civilian participation in civil defense training programs. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts a group of citizens involved with civil defense preparedness in New Jersey as they review a fallout shelter brochure. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts an advertisement for the Helicop-Hut made by Craig Systems Incorporated in Danvers, Massachusetts. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts a course in emergency mass feeding at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. Civil Defense Photographs

Original caption: Presque Isle’s crack Civil Defense search and rescue unit brings in a “lost” hunter during the test held for Maine and New Brunswick officials. They located eight hunters this way during the r More

This photograph depicts a group of young men setting up an Alert America exhibit about political and economic rights. Civil Defense Photographs

Original caption: Plotting the course of radioactive fallout at the alternate State control center in Windsor, Vermont. Women as well as men assisted in this map plotting. Civil Defense Photographs

Original caption: Welcome Wagon Hostesses of Suffolk County (New York) held their semi-annual business meeting at the County Civil Defense Center, and after luncheon were briefed by Colonel Harry C. Dayton and More

This photograph depicts a woman as she takes an inventory of supplies for her household's fallout shelter. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts Miss Catherine Falvey of Somerville, Massachusetts, who was the Assistant Director of the Boston Regional Civil Defense Office. Civil Defense Photographs

Original caption: Packed away without fanfare in strategically-placed warehouses around the nation is the Federal Civil Defense Administration’s mercy stockpile, which some day may spell life or death for milli More

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This photograph depicts a man as he connects two pieces of pipe during a Civil Defense exercise at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts one of the "Alert America" exhibits as it is packed for transport by the Alert America Convoy, a group of trucks that toured major cities throughout the United States. Civil Defense Photographs

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Original caption: This photograph depicts one of twelve prototype family fallout shelters sponsored by the New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs in cooperation with local, county and state Civil Defense More

This photograph depicts the First Radio Parish Church choir and religious council leaders at the first inter-denominational service in Maine, with Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant members. Civil Defense Photographs

Original caption: Civil Defense portable hospital exhibited in Industrial Arts Building at Eastern States Exposition, West Springfield, Massachusetts. The 200-bed emergency hospital can be moved immediately in More

This is photograph of Governor John Dempsy with the inscription, "To Al O'Connor With all my best wishes to a good friend. John Dempsey Gov of Conn." Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts an image used by the Federal Civil Defense Administration to illustrate an atomic attack’s impact on an American city. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts a Fort Devens unit as it sets up a mobile short-wave radio teletypewriter station. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts a training exercise as men raise a pipe at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Civil Defense Photographs

Original caption: It’s probably too late for first aid here, but it is good practice for Civil Defense volunteers during a test exercise involving Presque Isle’s 800 volunteers put on for Maine and New Brunswic More

Original caption: A "bleeding, cut and bruised casualty" is discovered trapped in a demolished building during a rescue demonstration at the Maine Civil Defense staff college by rescue worker Philip S. Batcheld More

This photograph depicts a rendering of a proposed atom bomb-proof recreation center intended for Manhattan and sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Civil Defense Photographs

Original caption: Graduates of Maine’s Fifth Civil Defense Staff College. University of Maine President Arthur Hauck presented the diplomas. Civil Defense Photographs

Original caption: The lateral destructive effects of MIKE (an experimental thermonuclear device) are indicated in this overlay of a map of the Nation’s Capital. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts women staff at Maine's First Civil Defense Staff College working with a 20 by 40 foot map of Baltimore used to locate assembly areas and evacuation routes. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts an Alert America Convoy Parade in front of the Boston Public Library. Civil Defense Photographs

Original caption: This photograph and the attached characteristic sheets are for the Truck, Amphibious, 4 Ton, 6x6, XM147E2 Superduck. An XM147E2 is currently being modified into an E3 version, which will shor More

This photograph depicts members of New York City’s Office of Civil Defense and other officials as they gather in the Consolidated Edison building for the opening of a three-day State-ordered civil defense train More

This photograph depicts members of the public as they view an exhibit on atomic power at the Alert America exhibition. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts six of the ten Alert America Convoy trucks which carry the Alert America exhibits to the principal cities of the nation on behalf of the Federal Civil Defense Administration. Civil Defen More

This photograph depicts students as they visit the Alert America exhibition on civil defense in Washington, DC. Civil Defense Photographs

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This photograph depicts visitors as they browse the Alert America exhibition on civil defense in 1952. Civil Defense Photographs

Original caption: “Kytoon” balloons are supplied by the U.S. Air Force’s Air Weather Service during the Atomic Energy Commission’s periodic atomic tests at the Nevada proving grounds to obtain weather informati More

Original caption: Cloud-sampling aircraft of the Air Force Special Weapons Center are decontaminated after each flight through radioactive cloud formations during periodic Atomic Energy Commission Nuclear tests More

This photograph depicts airmen as they determine the amounts of radiation absorbed by filters during cloud-sampling flights following each nuclear detonation at the Atomic Energy Commission’s (AEC) Nevada Provi More

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This photograph depicts new firefighting equipment acquired during New York City's Civil Defense Week, and purchased with funds provided by the Federal Civil Defense Council. Civil Defense Photographs

This is a photograph of mannequins taken after the civil defense nuclear test performed with the ANNIE test in Nevada, to discern nuclear aftereffects. Civil Defense Photographs

This is a photograph of mannequins taken before the civil defense nuclear test performed with the ANNIE test in Nevada. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts a family group of mannequins showing marked damage from flying glass. Civil Defense Photographs

Original caption: Family scene, mannequin style, before the blast. This group is in the living room of the house 7,500 feet from ground zero. (Federal Civil Defense Administration-Operation Doorstep-Yucca Flat More

This photograph depicts a group of news representatives from New Hampshire as they prepare to fly to the headquarters of the 32nd Air Division in Syracuse, New York on November 6, 1953, for a Civil Defense brie More

Letter Courtesy of National Archives at Boston

Letter Courtesy of National Archives at Boston

This photograph depicts a Civil Defense recruitment tent in Bayonne, New Jersey. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts two participants as they inspect a portable Army stove at an Emergency Mass Feeding Course at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts John A. Stevens, a welfare field representative from Hyannis, Massachusetts, as he eats a meal prepared by students at an Emergency Mass Feeding Course at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Civil Def More

This photograph depicts two people baking biscuits at an emergency mass feeding course at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts the emergency mass feeding post-course discussion at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts a group of Civil Defense course participants as they wash mess kits at the Emergency Mass Feeding Course at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts Mrs. Margaret P. Zealand, a nutritionist for the New Jersey Department of Health, and an Army sergeant as they bake biscuits. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts participants at an Emergency Mass Feeding Course at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Civil Defense Photographs

Civil Defense Photographs Public domain photograph related to 1930s-1950s dwelling, building, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Civil Defense Photographs Public domain photograph related to 1930s-1950s dwelling, building, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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This is a photograph of a mannequin resident of "Survival Town," which was built in Nevada to test the effects of a nuclear blast on buildings. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts damage from the Flood of 1955 in front of the post office in Winsted, Connecticut. Civil Defense Photographs

This is a photograph of house in "Survival Town," which was built in Nevada to test the effects of a nuclear blast on buildings. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts the Consolidated Bleaching Company plant in Mechanicsville, Connecticut, destroyed by fire during Hurricane Diane flooding. Civil Defense Photographs

This is a photograph of house in "Survival Town," which was built in Nevada to test the effects of a nuclear blast on buildings. Civil Defense Photographs

This is a photograph of a mannequin resident of "Survival Town," which was built in Nevada to test the effects of a nuclear blast on buildings. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts two members of the Boy Scouts of America as they promote Civil Defense at the Peterborough State Fair in New Hampshire. Civil Defense Photographs

Original caption: Living room scene in a 2-story wood frame house at 5500' before Operation Cue's atomic blast. (Federal Civil Defense Administration Photo). Civil Defense Photographs

Original caption: Living room scene in a 2-story wood frame house at 5500' after Operation Cue's atomic blast. (Federal Civil Defense Administration Photo). Civil Defense Photographs

Original caption: Two-story wood frame house at 5500' after atomic blast of Operation Cue. (Federal Civil Defense Administration Photo). Civil Defense Photographs

Original caption: Two-story wood frame house facing blast at 5500', Operation Cue. (Federal Civil Defense Administration Photo). Civil Defense Photographs

Civil Defense Photographs Public domain image of urban environment, buildings, city streets, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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This photograph depicts Massachusetts Governor Herter as he receives a check from the Regional Administrator of the Federal Civil Defense Administration for flood relief in September 1955. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts T. Babbitt Parlee and Harry A. Napes formalizing a pledge to mutual aid in disasters. Civil Defense Photographs

This photograph depicts a Civil Defense window display at the Sage Allen Department Store in Hartford, Connecticut, which was put in by the Connecticut State Office of Civil Defense from January 16 through Janu More

Original caption: Greene CD First Aid Team in Operation Mayflower. . . A green (but not "green") first aid team treats mock casualties at the Lewiston-Auburn Airport during the Civil Defense exercise Operation More

This photograph depicts a diagram of a family fallout shelter that could house four to six people. The diagram was presented to the public by the Federal Civil Defense Administration in January, 1958. Civil Def More

This photograph depicts Lewis E. Berry, Assistant National Director of the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization discussing survival plans and the implications of a federal bill to give greater financial More

This photograph depicts a diagram of a family fallout shelter that could be incorporated into a garden house. The diagram was presented to the public by the Federal Civil Defense Administration in January, 1958 More

This photograph shows a helium-filled radar observer balloon at the U.S. Air Force weather station at the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada Proving Grounds at Indian Springs. Testing of the atmosphere was done More