Abundant Harvest poster, rice-threshing photo set (Lao poster distributed in Vientiane)

A yellow Lao-language photo poster on rice harvesting. Eight captioned black-and-white photographs show villagers cutting, threshing and winnowing rice, buffalo trampling grain, a man carrying baskets on a pole, and a flooded paddy edge, with a headed text block at upper left. The poster promotes harvest-handling methods; the Lao text has not been read in full. The tell is plain-folks: named-by-occupation farmers at work stand for the audience itself.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Plain folks

Date

February 9, 1959

Period

Cold War

Made by

U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series

Region

North America

Country

United States

Medium

Poster

Issuer type

State

Regime

Eisenhower Administration

Leader

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Audience

Foreign public

Purpose

Warn or inform

Themes

Economy and finance, Science and technology

Event

Cold War

Source

Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure

Source

U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026

Rights

Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, February 9, 1959. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948894, 306-PPB-71).

ການເກັບກ່ຽວໄດ້ຜົນດີ

[Body text block and eight photo captions in Lao script, not transcribed]
[small printed code at lower right: illegible]

[Heading, read approximately: 'Harvest with good results' / 'Abundant harvest'. Remaining Lao text not translated.]