Interior of a St. Louis Home Bomb Shelter
- Item sets
- Cold War St. Louis
- Title
- Interior of a St. Louis Home Bomb Shelter
- Description
- This photograph shows the inside of a shelter, including a storage nook located at the back and a hand-crank device at the right, which may be a generator or a manual air ventilation system. This image is just one of a group of images at the Missouri Historical Society showing the construction and completion of a shelter at a small house.
- Creator
- Dorrill Studio
- Semester
- Spring 2026
- Subject
- Cold War
- Fallout Shelter
- Bomb Shelter
- Nuclear War
- Nuclear Weapons
- Temporal Coverage
- 1960 – 1969
- Spatial Coverage
- St. Louis
- St. Louis County
- Language
- English
- Date
- September 1961
- Format
- jpg
- Identifier
- P0243-12296-04-4a
- Medium
- Photograph
- Is Part Of
- Irv Schankman/Allied Photocolor Collection
- Explanation of Omeka Map Location
- This shape outlines the city and county; the specific address of the home is unknown.
- Media
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shelter interior.jpg