Emergency Hospital Exhibit [1955]

Title:: Emergency Hospital Exhibit [1955]
Description:: Connecticut Governor Abraham Ribicoff visits Exhibit
Creator:: Federal Civil Defense Administration. Region I. 1951-1958
Date:: [ca. 1955]
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Photographic prints
Location:: National Archives at Boston
Box ID: 04 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):: Record Group 304: Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization
Series:: Civil Defense Photographs, 1951-1961
Subjects:: Exhibitions
Civil defense
Ribicoff, Abraham, 1910-1998
Places:: Massachusetts > Hampden (county) > West Springfield
Extent:: 1 photograph : print ; 8.5 x 11 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/h128rr11r
Terms of Use:: No Copyright - United States
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This work is in the public domain under a Creative Commons No Rights Reserved License (CC0).

Notes:: Title from accompanying material.
Text from item: Connecticut Governor visits Civil Defense portable hospital exhibited in Industrial Arts Building at Eastern States Exposition, West Springfield, Mass. Left to right: Robert R. Richmond, Exhibit Chief, FCDA; Governor Abraham A. Ribicoff of Connecticut; Mrs. Ribicoff; and Leo J. Mulcahy, Connecticut CD Director. The 200-bed emergency hospital, designed by the Federal Civil Defense Administration, can be moved immediately in a single van to any disaster area. It is the first of at least 6000 scheduled to be stockpiled at strategic locations throughout the country. Medical and civil defense officials from the Northeast States tell persons visiting the hospital how it can be used to save lives in the event of a disaster, whether natural or caused by enemy attack.
Notes (date):: Date from item or accompanying material.
Accession #:: 824935
Identifier:: 0689

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