Al Hayat fi Amrika No. 31 promotion poster (Arabic poster distributed in Beirut)

A landscape promotion sheet for issue 31 of 'Life in America', a special number on New York City. A colour photograph of lit skyscrapers at dusk, a wide black-and-white panorama of the harbour with ferries and a liner, and a night-time strip of office windows sit on a blue ground. The tell is glittering generalities: the city is shown through scale, light and harbour views, and the text only announces the issue and asks readers to order it.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Glittering generalities

Date

September 16, 1964

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

Johnson Administration

Leader

Lyndon B. Johnson

Audience

Foreign public

Purpose

Persuade or win support

Theme

Media and information

Event

Cold War

Source

Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure

Source

U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Posters 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, September 16, 1964. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949215, 306-PPB-291).

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عن مدينة
نيويورك

اطلبه من الباعة في أوائل تشرين الأول (أكتوبر)

Life in America, 31. A special issue on the city of New York. Ask for it from vendors in early Tishrin al-Awwal (October).