US Navy activities, Washington DC Lot-9709-2 (37504105862)

Lot-9709-2: Washington, D.C. Evacuation of government buildings was orderly as sirens sounded the start of the giant Civil Defense exercises, “Operation Alert, 1955”. Today, although jams of people developed in parking lots and many of those under orders to leave Washington were unable to find transportation. The scene shown was on Pennsylvania Avenue shortly after the alert got underway. Photograph by Jack Lartz, June 15, 1955. Harris & Ewing Photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2017/10/06). Photographed through Mylar.