H-Bomb hideaway – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of H-Bomb hideaway. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The caption's wording, "H-Bomb hideaway," frames this 1955 United Press International photograph around a refuge built to guard against hydrogen weapons, a sharper focus than the general fallout-shelter images from the same decade. The United States had tested its first thermonuclear device in 1952, and the Soviet Union followed with its own in 1953, so by the mid-1950s many Americans were thinking about how to survive an attack. Civil defense agencies promoted home and backyard shelters, and the subject appeared often in newspapers and magazines. The gelatin silver print is a useful record of that anxiety and of the do-it-yourself optimism that accompanied it.
| Created / published | 1955 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. |
| Genre | Gelatin silver prints 1950-1960. |
| Notes | United Press International photograph. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. |
| Subjects | Air raid shelters--1950-1960. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,457 × 1,178 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218730 |
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