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
- Date
- July 3, 1958
- 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
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Home front
- 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, July 3, 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949082, 306-PPB-175).
Text on the object
ປະຊາຊົນອະເມຣິກັນມອບໃຫ້ປະຊາຊົນລາວ [Body text of four paragraphs and five photograph captions in Lao script, not transcribed]
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.
