"Family Shelter Designs", 1962 March

File — Box: 6, Folder: 1, Item: 2

Identifier: 10

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

This series contains materials published and distributed in order to inform, instruct, and prepare U.S. citizens for the possiblitly of nuclear war and its consequenses. The majority of the booklets and pamphlets were produced by the Department of Defense and Office of Civil Defense, and contain guides to creating and supplying personal fallout shelters.

Dates

Creation: 1962 March

Langauge of Materials

From the Collection:

Languages represented in the collection: English, Spanish.

Access

This collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 7.5 Linear Feet (4 document boxes, 1 oversize doc box, 1 half-size document box, 4 flat oversize boxes)

Additional Description

Note

Booklet containing multiple designs and material plans for the creation of a personal family fallout shelter. The U.S. government encouraged citizens who did not live near a community shelter to build their own small shelters as a protection in case of nuclear attack.