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.
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
source: U.S. National Archives
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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Lonnie Wilson: And the tension melted, May 21, 1969. In: Oakland Tribune.
Tensions between soldiers and demonstrators melted away yesterday when this pretty blonde girl rushed forward toward one National Guardsman. At first he tried to push her away, but she persisted and threw her arms around him in an emotional embrace. Soon both sides were smiling and a couple of hours later demonstrators drifted away the area near the home of Chancellor Roger Heyns.
Via The Oakland Tribune Collection, the Oakland Museum of California
