Gas attack. In: Az Est 25 éves jubileumi albuma. Összeállította: Dr. Mihályfi Ernő. Bp., 1935. (Az Est. -Ny.: Athenaeum.)

Sergeant George Camblair learning how to use a gas mask in a practice smokescreen. Fort Belvoir, Virginia, 1942 Sept. Photo: Jack Delano.

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Texas Military Forces Museum chlorpicrin gas poster, 1941-1945.

Posters produced by the Texas Military Forces Museum’s Art Department at Camp Barkeley, Texas. Gives means of identification and remedies for chlorpicrin gas. 

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Mancika, would you come with me to sunbathe to the Újpest embankment? In: Kincses Kalendárium, 1973. Fotó: Ferenc Berendi.

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Technicians in plastic protective suits and face masks repair pressure valve at atomic energy plant. In: LIFE Magazine, 1954 April 5.

Polietilén védőruha radioaktív anyagokkal dolgozók számára. Homer Moulthrop találmánya. In: A tudomány csodái - Az energia. Szerző: Mitchell Wilson és a TIME-LIFE szerkesztősége. Műszaki Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 1977.

Homer Moulthrop’s protective suit for working safely around radioactive dust. In: Life Science Library - Energy, 1963.

A polgári védelem legfontosabb feladata az emberi élet és az anyagi javak megmentése. Polgári Védelem, 1972.

The most important task of Civil Defense is protecting the life and material goods of the population. Hungarian Civil Defense, 1972.

Francia csecsemő-gázvédelmi gyakorlat. Gázálarcos anyák, gázvédő zsákba burkolt csecsemőjükkel. In: Képes Vasárnap, 1939. július 2.

Gas attack practice for mothers and their children in France.  In: “Sunday Pictorial” (hungarian weekly magazine), July 2, 1939.

Like girls from Mars are these “top women” at U.S. Steel’s Gary, Indiana, Works. Their job is to clean up at regular intervals around the tops of twelve blast furnaces. As a safety precaution, the girls wear oxygen masks., 1940 - 1945

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Tempting Death by Breathing Poisonous Gasses, 1932. London, England.

Death stands nearby as these men calmly go about their business of breathing poisonous gases in an experimental station for testing gas masks.

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