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title: Ấp Bá Canh (Ba Canh Hamlet)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ap-ba-canh-ba-canh-hamlet-1965-1969/
description: A green and white sheet titled 'Ấp Bá Canh' (Ba Canh Hamlet) shows a line of villagers in conical hats carrying baskets of broken stone on shoulder poles
section: Collection
---

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[![Ấp Bá Canh, 1965 US poster: A green and white sheet titled 'Ấp Bá Canh' (Ba Canh Hamlet) shows a line of villagers in conical](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ap-ba-canh-ba-canh-hamlet-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ap-ba-canh-ba-canh-hamlet-1965-1969.jpg)

# Ấp Bá Canh (Ba Canh Hamlet)

A green and white sheet titled 'Ấp Bá Canh' (Ba Canh Hamlet) shows a line of villagers in conical hats carrying baskets of broken stone on shoulder poles beside a large pile of rubble. The sheet has no other text. The tell is the single title over a photograph of communal labour, which presents the work as the hamlet's own.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
ẤP BÁ CANH

1
```

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

```
BA CANH HAMLET

1
```

[← Another Vietcong Crime in Dinh-Tuong](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/another-viet-cong-crime-in-dinh-tuong-1965/) [Ba Canh Hamlet: The People of Ba Canh Starting to Work at Building a Bridge for the Hamlet →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ba-canh-hamlet-building-a-bridge-1965-1969/)

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