Nuclear fallout shelter and safety collection
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Collection contains 20+ pamphlets, booklets and newsletters on missle safety and how to prepare for and survive a nuclear attack (issued primarily by federal and state government agencies). Also, a circular nuclear bomb effects computer. Maps documenting America’s civil defense efforts (or coordinated lack thereof) developed in the wake of the Soviet Union’s detonation of its first atomic bomb in 1949. These maps represent efforts to educate the public about the location of fallout shelters in multiple cities or regions and/or evacuation routes.
Dates
- 1959-1961.
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
Box 3 (unprocessed) closed until processed.
Biographical / Historical
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Cold War tensions and threat of nuclear war convinced government leaders in the United States that millions of lives could be saved by the construction of home fallout shelters. How-to booklets proliferated, instructing people in the fine points of building their own shelters, family preparations, first aid, and what to do in an emergency.
Extent
0.9 cubic feet. (0.9 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Collection contains 20+ pamphlets, booklets and newsletters on missle safety and how to prepare for and survive a nuclear attack (issued primarily by federal and state government agencies). Also, a circular nuclear bomb effects computer. Maps documenting America’s civil defense efforts (or coordinated lack thereof) developed in the wake of the Soviet Union’s detonation of its first atomic bomb in 1949. These maps represent efforts to educate the public about the location of fallout shelters in multiple cities or regions and/or evacuation routes.
Physical Description
Printed materials.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- September 2017
- EAD encoding:
- Jude Corina, September 2017
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- August 2017
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 12/07/2018: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)