Scout's Atomic Flash

It Could Happen...But Didn’t - U.S. Civil Defense paper with dummy headlines, 1953

Cute and Friendly Atomic Age Disinformation...? - Reddy Kilowatt stars in The Mighty Atom: the story of electricity from amber to atoms (1965). Distributed as an educational service by P.G. and E., Pacific Gas and Electric Company. (image via Beinecke Digital Collections - Yale University Library)

KEEP ALERT on the roads - by Leonard Cusden (1950s)© The Royal Society For The Prevention of Accidents: ‘Cats are good animals to use for safety because they have nine lives, good night vision, and always land on their paws’ Design Expert, Paul Rennie, Safety First             

Picture of a Young Man Planning a Successful Future! - Bendix Employment Advertisement detail, 1956.  (via Luis Cesar)

High Voltage Family - In mid-century America, no one wanted to be considered underprivileged, electrically speaking. Vintage Advert - America’s Independent Electric Light and Power Company, 1955. (via Envisioning The American Dream)

‘...power from the peace atom may now be closer than you think.’ - Detail from an informational/propaganda advertisement by Inco Nickel published in The Saturday Evening Post, October 16, 1954.

Broadcasters Of Joy! - One of the Bill Jones (a fictional character) series of posters published by Parker-Holladay Co. during the 1920s to promote correct work ethic and teamwork in the workplace. U.K., 1928.  (via AntikBar)

Your Future Home may have panels like these...Atomic energy probably will provide much of the additional electricity you will use. - Advert detail, America's Electric Light and Power Companies, 1955.

The FUEL of the FUTURE - Reddy Kilowatt Nuclear Power Comic Book, 1969

Illustration by Alexander Leydenfrost for If A-Bombs Blast US City, from the February, 1951 issue of Pageant magazine

Atoms For Peace And Communism! ~ USSR Atomic Propaganda Poster

Comrades! Join the Iberian Column, and reinforce the fight against fascism! FAI, Iberian Anarchist Federation recruitment poster during the Spanish Civil War, 1936 (via x-ray delta one)

A Visitor in Outer Space - Vintage Chinese Space Program Propaganda Poster (photo via Ricardo Goulart.)

Vulture Capitalist!

Suburbia - 1960