Increased public awareness about the personal and environmental dangers of fallout is documented through fallout shelter designs, disaster plans, and guides for the layperson on radiation detection.Ī number of items relate to educating laypersons and/or students about nuclear energy and science, including school newsletters, curricula, exhibit guides, and manuals. Public engagement with the challenges of atomic energy can be seen through newspapers, radio programs, and other mass media artifacts. Civil defense is a primary concentration of the collection, and a number of handbooks, manuals, training materials, and survival guides dominate the collection from 1950 to 1965. The testing and development of nuclear weapons is represented by numerous photographs, press releases, and postcards.

In the years before 1950, growing anxiety at the start of the Cold War and calls for peace from individuals and organizations can be seen in pamphlets, newsletters, and article reprints. Tensions around international control of atomic energy in the years just following the war are represented through offprints, reports, and speeches. Newspapers, speeches, and publications show American response to news of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the end of the war in 1945.

Materials prior to 1945 deal with early scientific advances and the therapeutic radium craze, documented through promotional materials, testimonials, and advertisements. Most items were produced in the United States however, British, Canadian, and Japanese materials are also present. Materials in the collection comprise broad coverage of many scientific, religious, cultural, industrial, political, environmental, and other aspects of nuclear history. The collection includes materials produced from the late 19th century to the present day, with the majority of items falling between 19. and his partner Diane DeBlois, experts on ephemera and proprietors of the ephemera business a’Gatherin. Collection of Atomic Age Ephemera consists of printed ephemera acquired and assembled by Robert Dalton Harris, Jr.

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