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Title: Atomic attack survival kit
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Image is a copy print.; Photograph included in the exhibit: "From Hula Hoops to Hanoi: L.A. Concerns, 1954-1965."
Photograph caption dated June 16,1955 reads, "Typical of atomic attack survival kit now on market is above, manufactured by Par-Long Manufacturing Company, Reseda, which includes supplies for two adults and one child for a period of three days. Among items are cans of food, can opener, paper and pencil, tourniquet, soap, eating utensils."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00021856
Valley Times Collection
HCN 17843; H-17843.2 4x5
CARL0000025191
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/40962
Subject: Par-Long Manufacturing Company
Survival and emergency equipment
Civil defense
Atomic bomb--United States
Valley Times Collection photographs

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