Before there were fallout shelters, there were storm cellars - such as this one on the West Texas Panhandle.
Photo by Dorothea Lange, 1937. [American Memory link]
Showcasing some of the 160,000 images taken between 1935 and 1944 by government-hired photographers. (If you were to look at 100 of them per day, every day, you'd need more than four years to view them all).