Americana photo gallery

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  Advertisement for Camel cigarettes, with a medical endorsement

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  Chesley Bonestell’s vision of Manhattan under nuclear attack, from Collier’s, 1950

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  Schoolchildren practising duck and cover drill in case of nuclear attack, 1951
  
  

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  Naval observers watching
  a nuclear blast in the
  Pacific in the 1950s

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  ‘I dreamed I went to the office in my Maidenform
  bra’
  
  

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  The Paramount movie palace, Des Moines,
  1950s
  
  

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  Charles van Doren on Twenty-One, the TV quiz show, 11 March 1957; it was later discovered that the show had been rigged
  

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  Spectators at the Iowa
  State Fair cake display,
  Des Moines, 1955

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  Locust Street, Des Moines, 16 February 1953; Dope Inferno is showing at the cinema