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title: American People Give to the Lao People poster (Lao poster distributed in Vientiane)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/american-people-give-to-lao-people-poster-175-lao-vientiane-1958/
description: A yellow Lao-language photo sheet. The United States flag and the Laotian flag with its three-headed elephant sit side by side above the headline.
section: Collection
---

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# American People Give to the Lao People poster (Lao poster distributed in Vientiane)

A yellow Lao-language photo sheet. The United States flag and the Laotian flag with its three-headed elephant sit side by side above the headline, which says the American people present this to the Lao people. Five photographs show workers roofing school buildings with corrugated sheets, men gathered round stacked sheets and a jeep on a hillside road. The tell is transfer: the paired flags attach the project to both peoples, and card-stacking: only the delivered aid is shown.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

Original (Lao) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
ປະຊາຊົນອະເມຣິກັນມອບໃຫ້ປະຊາຊົນລາວ

[Body text of four paragraphs and five photograph captions in Lao script, not transcribed]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
The American people present to the Lao people

[Body text and captions not translated; they appear to describe corrugated roofing sheets supplied for school buildings in Luang Prabang province]
```

Only the headline was transcribed with confidence; the smaller body type was not read.

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