# US atomic-age posters, cartoons and front pages, 1945–1969

This gallery collects 35 records from the FRAME snapshot, dated 1945 to 1969, in which the atom is the subject or a captioned item: two front pages from the day after Hiroshima, the 1950 civil defense booklet, 22 U.S. Information Agency sheets for audiences abroad, nine Jim Berryman cartoons and the 1964 "Daisy" spot. Cards run in date order.

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  US atomic-age posters, cartoons and front pages, 1945–1969
  This gallery collects 35 records from the FRAME snapshot, dated 1945 to 1969, in which the atom is the subject or a captioned item: two front pages from the day after Hiroshima, the 1950 civil defense booklet, 22 U.S. Information Agency sheets for audiences abroad, nine Jim Berryman cartoons and the 1964 "Daisy" spot. Cards run in date order.

The grid has four kinds of speaker, and the card does not always say which one is talking, so here is the key. The federal government at home speaks once, on the cover of Survival Under Atomic Attack. The U.S. Information Agency and its State Department predecessors speak 22 times, to readers in Beirut, Damascus, Manila, Dacca, Tehran, Rangoon, Taipei, San Salvador and elsewhere, mostly about the peaceful atom. Private newspapers speak eleven times: the Washington Evening Star and the Atlanta Daily World on 7 August 1945, and nine cartoons Jim Berryman drew for the Star between 1953 and 1963. A presidential campaign speaks once, in the 1964 "Daisy" spot.

The agency sheets were chosen because the atom is their subject or a captioned item on them. Some are whole campaigns, such as the six-page Atoms for Peace set from 1956 and the exhibition posters from Beirut and Damascus. Others are picture-news sheets where one item among several is an atomic power plant, a research garden, or a prize. FRAME classes 17 of the 22 agency sheets as blurred, meaning the sheet does not show the American government behind it, and 5 as openly sourced. The newspapers, the cartoons, the booklet and the campaign spot all carry their makers' names.

Where this site has an essay, the card opens it. Otherwise it opens the FRAME record. If the line under the title says "no primary id in the snapshot," the record gives no NARA number, and none is supplied here. Translations quoted on the essay pages are FRAME's machine renderings. Headlines on both 1945 front pages use the wartime slur for Japanese people; the card titles are the archive's catalog titles, and the essay pages quote the headlines as printed.

The snapshot holds no record of the Duck and Cover film or its turtle, of CONELRAD broadcast notices, of fallout-shelter signs, or of government announcements about weapons tests, so none appears here. The parent page is Civil defense and the atomic age in US messaging, 1945–1969.

  United StatesAtlanta Daily World, daily edition, front page (Atlanta, Georgia, August 7, 1945)August 7, 1945 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited StatesThe Evening Star, daily edition, front page (Washington, D.C., August 7, 1945)August 7, 1945 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited StatesSurvival Under Atomic Attack (official U.S. Government booklet, cover)1950 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited StatesCeiling ZeroJune 9, 1953 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743178United StatesStrange EchoDecember 11, 1953 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743183United StatesAnba' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 17/54: News in Pictures (illustrated news sheet distributed in Beirut)March 28, 1954 · NAID 6948763; Record Group 306United StatesAnba' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 18/54: News in Pictures (illustrated news sheet distributed in Beirut)June 4, 1954 · NAID 6948761; Record Group 306United StatesAnba' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 19/54: News in Pictures (illustrated news sheet distributed in Beirut)June 12, 1954 · NAID 6948762; Record Group 306United StatesAtom for Peace Exhibition (Arabic poster distributed in Beirut)March 8, 1956 · NAID 6948731; Record Group 306United StatesAtoms for Peace poster, page 1: Eisenhower pledge (English-text poster, distribution post not stated)April 10, 1956 · NAID 5051202; NAID 6948910; Record Group 306United StatesAtoms for Peace poster, page 2: Philippines treaty (English-text poster, Philippines subject)April 10, 1956 · NAID 5051202; NAID 6948911; Record Group 306United StatesAtoms for Peace poster, Philippines p. 3: Students and Grantees (English photo sheet distributed in the Philippines)April 10, 1956 · NAID 6948912; Record Group 306United StatesAtoms for Peace poster, Philippines p. 4: What Is Atomic Energy? (English photo sheet distributed in the Philippines)April 10, 1956 · NAID 6948913; Record Group 306United StatesAtoms for Peace poster, Philippines p. 5: Hospital and Factory (English photo sheet distributed in the Philippines)April 10, 1956 · NAID 6948914; Record Group 306United StatesAtoms for Peace poster, Philippines p. 6: Farm and Power (English photo sheet distributed in the Philippines)April 10, 1956 · NAID 6948915; Record Group 306United StatesAtom for Peace Exhibition (Arabic poster distributed in Damascus)April 12, 1956 · NAID 6948732; Record Group 306United StatesA test he can't abandon!October 30, 1956 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743235United StatesU.S. Armed Forces Day, In the Interest of Peace (English poster distributed in Karachi)April 22, 1957 · NAID 6949117; Record Group 306United StatesBacking it UpMay 6, 1957 · NAID 5743241United StatesChitra Katha photo poster No. 12: Oak Ridge atomic energy for peace (Bengali photo poster distributed in Dacca)June 3, 1957 · NAID 6948800; Record Group 306United StatesWall News poster No. 40, Atoms for Peace exhibit (Farsi, distributed in Tehran)June 11, 1957 · NAID 6948860; Record Group 306United StatesPishraft-e Iran wall news poster, No. 41: Eisenhower Doctrine, locomotives (Farsi, Tehran)June 29, 1957 · NAID 6948861; Record Group 306United StatesA Fellow Just Isn't Safe ANYWHERE Anymore!September 21, 1957 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743250United StatesPishraft-e Iran wall news poster, No. 50: Atoms for Peace (Farsi, Tehran)November 16, 1957 · NAID 6948867; Record Group 306United StatesIn a Changing World poster (English, distributed in India)January 1, 1958 · NAID 6948792; Record Group 306United StatesBurma-America Picture News Poster No. 10 (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon)March 27, 1958 · NAID 5051202; NAID 6948962; Record Group 306United StatesThe Last Time I saw Paris - By John Foster DullesJuly 8, 1958 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743264United StatesActualidades Mundiales poster, No. 64 (Spanish world-news map, Latin America)March 10, 1959 · NAID 6948887; Record Group 306United StatesFree World Pictorial poster, Vol. 4 No. 6 (Chinese poster distributed in Taipei)May 19, 1959 · NAID 6949151; Record Group 306United StatesConversation PieceApril 8, 1961 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743290United StatesTough Course for a young skipper to chartJune 9, 1961 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743292United StatesA General View of the Global SituationOctober 1, 1963 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743300United StatesPeace, Little Girl ("Daisy")September 7, 1964 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited StatesHeraldo Grafico poster, April 1965 issue (Spanish wall newspaper distributed in San Salvador)March 26, 1965 · NAID 6949350; Record Group 306United StatesFrontiers of Research poster (English, distributed in Manila)March 26, 1969 · NAID 6949269; Record Group 306

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