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Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School students practice Civil Defense drills in the school hallway for photographer, Oliver Atkins to illustrate an article entitled: “This School is Ready for the H-Bomb” in The Saturday Evening Post, September 25, 1954.

Container belonging to the Civil Defense Administration film, Duck and Cover by Castle Films.

The front and back covers to the book How to Survive an Atomic Bomb by Richard Gerstel.

Senator Joseph McCarthy checks his telephone for listening devices in this photo by Oliver Atkins for an article in The Saturday Evening Post entitled: “Why Has Washington Gone Crazy?” July 29, 1950.

The front and back covers to the book McCarthyism: The Fight for America by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy

The front and back covers to the book America's Retreat from Victory: The George Marshall Story by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy

The front and back covers to The Red Plot Against America by Robert E. Stripling.

Cover to the playbill for The Cruicible. The play, originally wrote in 1953 by Arthur Miller, holds a legacy of being specifically written as an allegory for McCarthyism. Miller’s play is a fictionalized version of the Salem Witch Trials.

Xerographic copy of Arthur Miller letter to an Arena Stage staff member concerning their production of The Crucible, 1966-1967.

A glass coffee carafe featuring a starburst motif.