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title: 'Pictorial Magazine poster, 65-74: Ranger 7 Moon photos (Amharic, Addis Ababa)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/amharic-wall-poster-65-74-ranger-7-moon-photos-addis-ababa-1964/
description: An Amharic photo sheet headed 'Pictorial Magazine' with the headline that Ranger 7 took photographs of the Moon.
section: Collection
---

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[![Pictorial Magazine poster, 65-74: Ranger 7 Moon photos, 1964 US poster: An Amharic photo sheet headed 'Pictorial Magazine'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/amharic-wall-poster-65-74-ranger-7-moon-photos-addis-ababa-1964.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/amharic-wall-poster-65-74-ranger-7-moon-photos-addis-ababa-1964.jpg)

# Pictorial Magazine poster, 65-74: Ranger 7 Moon photos (Amharic, Addis Ababa)

An Amharic photo sheet headed 'Pictorial Magazine' with the headline that Ranger 7 took photographs of the Moon. A rocket lifts off at left, six close-up lunar frames fill the centre and right, and the bottom row shows a lunar frame beside an aerial view of a house and a photograph of President Johnson viewing the images. The tell is card-stacking: successes are shown through selected pictures and a presidential viewing.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
ሥዕላዊ መጽሔት ።

ሬንጀር ሰቨን የጨረቃን ፎቶግራፍ አነሳች

65-74 (8)
```

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

```
Pictorial Magazine.

Ranger Seven took photographs of the Moon.

65-74 (8)
```

Only the masthead, headline and sheet code are transcribed; the dense body text and picture captions are too small to transcribe verbatim and are not included.

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