Three booklets produced for the U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Civil Defense: "School boards plan for civil defense" (August 1965); "Designing shelter in new buildings: a manual for architects on the preliminary designing of shielding from fallout gamma radiation..." (March 1967); "National Fallout Shelter Design Competition, community center, awards, conducted by the American Institute of Architects" (July 1967).
gift of Ann B. Munger, Nora Berwick, and Maria Witte, 2014.
gift of Stephen Goddard, 2016.
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Approx. 20 items: clips and copies of articles from LAT, other newspapers and Time (mag) related to "cold war" civil defense concerns of the 1950s and 1960s. Many of the articles are clustered in the year 1961, during which interest in both public and private fallout (bomb) shelters seemed to have reached a peak.
"In an atomic war, blast, heat, and initial radiation could kill millions close to ground zero of nuclear bursts. Many more millions-everybody else-could be threatened by radioactive fallout. But most of these could be saved. The purpose of this booklet is to show how to escape death from fallout. Everyone, even those far from a likely target, would need shelter from fallout. Your Federal Government has a shelter policy based on the knowledge that most of those beyond the range of blast and heat will survive if they have adequate protection from fallout"--Introduction, page 2.
4 items. Multi-page report, with many illustrations, titled "We Can Protect Against the Blast and Fire of 100-Megaton Bombs!" Letter to Williams on Civil Defense (report and letter both by Carl E. Hendel, Univ. of California. Also, Williams reply to Hendel and a letter from U.S. Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, praising LAT civil defense special section.
An oversize reproduction of a 1924 booklet about Edward Drummond Libbey and the "Arbolada," a 500-acre area of Ojai, California. Includes images of Ojai Valley Inn and Libbey Stables; 20 pages.
